I'm using dark modes since my Atari 600 XL days. Then C64. Then Amiga. Then DOS. Sadly then then some Windows 3.1 and 95 where dark themes weren't a thing a

I'm using dark modes since my Atari 600 XL days. Then C64. Then Amiga. Then DOS. Sadly then then some Windows 3.1 and 95 where dark themes weren't a thing and I dearly missed my DOS text editors and tools (Norton Commander etc.), all dark. But thankfully Linux happened. I'm running my xterms with "reverse video" (aka a dark theme) on since Debian 1.1 or so (not Debian 11 but Debian 1.1). The parameter to xterm for "reverse video" is called "-rv". Emacs: dark theme since forever. Fun fact IntelliJ used to ship without a dark theme but everything was configurable, so I created my own dark theme for early IntelliJ (the only issue was broken font anti-aliasing on a dark background: solved by using a pixel perfect font). Nowadays? Dark themes everywhere of course and this blog post won't convince me to change.