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The industry has cycled back and forth between "dark mode" and "light mode" several times. Browsers first appeared in a "light mode" era, which I suppose probab
by dboreham 1y ago
The industry has cycled back and forth between "dark mode" and "light mode" several times. Browsers first appeared in a "light mode" era, which I suppose probably began with the Lisa then the Mac, then Sun workstations. Black-on-white needed a more expensive high performance CRT and graphics output circuitry so possibly there was an element of chic associated with it vs lowly green/white text terminals that came before.
- drob518 1y agoYep. I think by the time the web arrived, it was pretty common for the windowing systems (e.g., Windows, Mac System whatever, OpenVue, Next, etc.) to have black text on white backgrounds to mimic paper output.