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Originally Posted by tomsem
... I use Black theme pretty much all of the time in reading apps as an antidote to what would otherwise be more or less unrelenting white backgrounds that are in common use on computer screens for some reason....
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I never thought about this before, but my first DOS computers, including the first true personal computer I ever owned the Apple II+, had a black screen with green text. There were no window backgrounds in the DOS world or on the main frame terminals I used at IBM in the early 1980s because we only had monochrome monitors and support. I think the first time I saw a colored screen was on my first Mac, a Mac SE in 1985, and it was actually greyscale rather than color. Later additions of DOS supported color monitors but it was up to the app developers to set the colors. When Windows came out it used the white background on screens just like Apple did with the Macs. Apple said they were attempting to make the screen look like paper with ink lettering for text, so that is perhaps why they went with white backgrounds and black text.