This is not how I remember it. Default background colour in Netscape Navigator was not white but #c0c0c0 (and IIRC it wast that colour in Mosaic too). And yes,

This is not how I remember it. Default background colour in Netscape Navigator was not white but #c0c0c0 (and IIRC it wast that colour in Mosaic too). And yes, lots of pages relied on the default. For example, this post has some screenshots: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/whats-changed-in-the-past-17-years/ https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/whats-changed-in-the-past-17-...