You may be right, I don't have good memories from the late CRT / early flat-screen era (I must have been 13 or something). Now that you mention it, I think my first flat screen monitor might have been 1440x900 / 16:10. I'm sure that my screen has been 1080p "full HD" since ~2007 because I still use that screen as my primary monitor. Whether I had one in between those two, I don't remember.