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Green on black was not exactly a “software default”. It was a physical property of the display hardware. Dark on light is at least thousands of years old, thin
by umanwizard 6y ago
Green on black was not exactly a “software default”. It was a physical property of the display hardware.
Dark on light is at least thousands of years old, think of ink on papyrus in ancient Egypt.
- nikanj 6y agoI think we're talking about different things here. You're talking about the physical restrictions of the media, I'm talking about the defaults selected by software developers. My first computer could display dozens of colors, but defaulted to a dark background and light text. Windows 3.11 defaulted to black-on-white, on hardware from the same era. And now we're cycling back to defaulting to dark modes again.
- umanwizard 6y agoYou’re right; I was thinking of the text-only terminals that were widely used in the 70s and 80s. I believe those are where the green/amber/white on black aesthetic originated, because they couldn’t display anything else. But I could be wrong.