11:03:21splittistI guess (a) devices started being able to represent lots of colours, so the idea of machine-controlled 'accuracy' arose, then (b) a huge accretion of 'knowledge' meant all programs dealing with colour had to account for the possibility of being used as the input to a vastly-sophisticated multi-millions press, rather than just throwing any old thing into a bitmap to be displayed on a device that has never been, and never will be,
11:03:21splittisttuned i.e. any screen I'm likely to look at.