Nobody used white as default, but sites that explicitly set their background color used white quite often. Here's a site that I made for my dad's real estate p

Nobody used white as default, but sites that explicitly set their background color used white quite often. Here's a site that I made for my dad's real estate project back in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19980529222609/http://www.cypresshead.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19980529222609/http://www.cypress... (The snapshot is from May '98 which is when the Wayback Machine first discovered it, but I built the site earlier than that) The background color was actually a point of contention. I thought the default gray looked better, but my dad's perception was that most big professional sites seemed to be choosing white, so we went with white as well.