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Traditional normal is not an absolute statement. Sure DOS / Unix back in the early days of PC displayed black backgrounds due the display's at the time working
by flockonus 2y ago
Traditional normal is not an absolute statement. Sure DOS / Unix back in the early days of PC displayed black backgrounds due the display's at the time working better this way.
Before that, people shared information in white paper; and the beginning of the internet brought it back with black text over white background.
Therefore there is no canonical traditional normal, it all depends when one joined.
- qwerty456127 2y agoDOS notably used eye-friendly grey text, not bright white.
- 1000100_1000101 2y agoPaper and paper-like writing surfaces were non-white for a long time before we got bleached white paper. We haven't yet had a glowing-white paper. Traditional-normal for computing was a dark background. There was likely a technological limit in the use of pure white at the start when "emulating" paper. VGA 16-color mode likely meant that the choice was between bright white and medium grey, which was too dark. Configurability has lagged behind though.
- markhahn 2y agono, if you think trad-norm is dark mode, it just identifies when you started using computers.