Computers have been high-contrast since the first GUIs dating all the way back to Xerox PARC (https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui https:/

Computers have been high-contrast since the first GUIs dating all the way back to Xerox PARC (https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui) Yet I have only ever heard of people complaining about it recently, when GUI designed started debasing itself by making everything web-based, and zoomers started demanding dark mode everywhere. Before that, and in my lifetime of computer nerditry dating back to the mid-90s (on self-luminescent CRTs!), I have never heard of people intentionally turning down the brightness or complaining about contrast of anything, whether its a tube TV or computer screen. Which makes this whole preference for low-contrast incredibly suspicious. Like it was another one of those learned 'ailments' that spread around society like a shitty meme.