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this also caught my attention. the author also questions why the screens are blue I think he has just forgotten that in the late 90s, these color choices were
by metalliqaz 2y ago
this also caught my attention. the author also questions why the screens are blue
I think he has just forgotten that in the late 90s, these color choices were entirely obvious and followed the Windows design precedent, which is why he probably didn't think much about it at the time
- camtarn 2y agoIndeed. For example, Windows 95's My Computer icon might have had a teal background to match the default desktop background, but the screen of the peer computer in the Network Neighborhood icon was blue.
- autoexec 2y agoI'd accuse windows of knowingly setting expectations by choosing a blue screen as the default, but they were using it before the BSOD was even a thing
- jagged-chisel 2y agoDOS-based editors used a blue background often: WordPerfect, QuickC…
- sfllaw 2y agoDo you remember Microsoft Word’s “Jerry Pournelle mode”? He convinced them to ship a feature that forced Word to render white text on a blue background, just like his favourite word processor, so that he would switch. I think the last version with this feature was Word 2003.
- lproven 2y agoI used to use that occasionally! It was Pournelle that inspired it? Really?