Comment by nullc

It's easier than the author appears to suspect.

I wrote all my status reports for work, commit comments, and quite a few emails in 'monospace full-just' for many years. I'm not sure why I stopped doing it habitually, though I still do it sometimes when I notice my messages naturally came out close to it. It may be just due to using the web more often, which seldom displays text with a monospace font.

I don't recall anyone ever noticing, nor did I expect them to.

Seeing another commenter mention BBSes in the mid-90s, perhaps that is where I picked up the practice.

The metroid text seems to change width periodically in varrious blocks, which is also a property of the monospace-full-just text that I wrote.