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When the screens were tiny by today's standards (like the screen in the original Macintosh), black-on-white kind of made sense. But with the large screens too m
by Koshkin 5y ago
When the screens were tiny by today's standards (like the screen in the original Macintosh), black-on-white kind of made sense. But with the large screens too much white hurts the eyes.
- guenthert 5y agoIf your screen outshines the background so much that your eyes hurt, perhaps its time to dim the screen or light up the background?
- t-3 5y agoThere is a seeming trend of super-bright lower bounds to screen brightness. I can't even look at my phone directly in a dark room on the lowest brightness. I stopped using the GUI on my newest laptop and went to console-only because it is also blindingly bright
- hulitu 5y agoYeah, "larger wide 14" screens". Or larger 5 " screens on phones .
- perilunar 5y agoBlack on white on the original Mac was a novelty at the time — most earlier computers had monochrome screens, usually green, amber or white on black.