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by int_19h 1348 days ago
Blue background was a very common convention for DOS TUI. I'm not sure which app started it, but it was seen in MS-DOS editor / QBASIC; Norton Commander and its numerous clones; Turbo/Borland Pascal and C++; Microsoft C, Pascal and VB for DOS; FoxBASE / FoxPro; and so on.