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I believe this is the correct answer. It was the default for Netscape navigator back in early 90s. If you wrote an html page without styles it gave you a white
by gabereiser 5y ago
I believe this is the correct answer. It was the default for Netscape navigator back in early 90s. If you wrote an html page without styles it gave you a white background, blue hyperlinks, and times new roman font. As for why the default for NN was blue, I really don’t know other than the juxtaposition of it vs normal text. To claim it was mosaic would align with my history of it with NN though.
- Terretta 5y agoIf someone in 1989 handed you an article with occasional markings added indicating important terms or concepts, it was probably a blue underline, which contrasted and stood out nicely from the black photocopy or print.
- askvictor 5y agoI'm wondering why they chose a serif font as the default, given their rendering on low-res screens (as most were at that time) is pretty bad.
- eropple 5y agoI've wondered this before, but never found much concrete--except that being picky about rendering serifs on "low resolution" screens is a very modern thing in itself! My intuition is that it comes from books/newspapers and nascent desktop publishing universes; sans-serif fonts being used for large amounts of body text anywhere, on paper or not, is relatively new as a mainstream thing. (That isn't to say it never happened, just that it's historically rare.)
- sirspacey 5y agoI always thought it was ported over from Apple’s Hypertext pre-internet