> Web era began around the rise of LCD displays. CRTs are too non-linear for most people to tolerate black on white, so its a status symbol from around the turn

> Web era began around the rise of LCD displays. CRTs are too non-linear for most people to tolerate black on white, so its a status symbol from around the turn of the century to do white on black. How does this account for things like Atari TOS, MacOS, OS/2 or any early version of Windows that all mainly use black on white for text? The "web era" depending on how you define it could of course have coincided with the LCD era (though in my experience happened more than half a decade earlier, which is generations in computer technology time) but the web didn't somehow invent black text on white backgrounds.