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I think you got just a very bad monitor, if it doesn't have a green / amber switch. Simply go and buy a better one. Btw. Blog is completely missing the lovely s

I think you got just a very bad monitor, if it doesn't have a green / amber switch. Simply go and buy a better one. Btw. Blog is completely missing the lovely slow phosphor trailing effect, it could be added with js. I was great that you were able to read text from monitor about 5 seconds after powering it off. - After quick Googling, I couldn't find pre-existing javascript to do it. It would be nice to make one.

ianstallings 13y ago
A green / amber switch are you serious? Are you in a time machine?
- NelsonMinar 13y ago
  Of course he's serious. Green for hacking code, amber for reading Usenet.
DanBC 13y ago
It might be nice to replicate the 8 x 8 pixels (on a 640 x 200 screen) of the CGA 80 x 25 characters text mode.
- 205guy 13y ago
  I was thinking the same thing. The text is way too sharp, so it's rather anachronistic to see the right color scheme with modern fonts. There has to be a slightly pixelated font out there, based on the pixel pattern of the green CRTs. Of course, it wouldn't be practical on the blog, but it would look cool on his home page (jwz.org). Just for the record, all the people complaining about jwz's green text have no idea what they're talking about. It might be old-fashioned and out of style, but it's totally readable. There are way worse websites, even among designers who should know better. What's funny is that it never fails that someone criticizes the green color, and says something about not taking the content seriously, every time jwz's posts get hackernewsed.
gwern 13y ago
Might be hard to do in JS; http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emulator/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emu... apparently uses OpenGL to get its phosphor effects.