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		silon42 on Nov 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark o... There was blue mode for a while. I remember using of Norton Commander, Turbo Pascal, where blue mode was the default and quite popular.

vidarh on Nov 26, 2019 | [–]

I suspect a lot of that happened because people started adding color when color monitors became a more common option, and blue being the least offensive of the alternatives available if you wanted to add a background color...

i_am_proteus on Nov 26, 2019 | [–]

And classic Word Perfect 5.

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