[rsynnott]

> I tried, but I just can’t believe anything written after that statement. The default was white (or green or orange) on black.

The vast majority of the world's population have rarely or never used a monochrome computer screen. Even when they were common, the bulk of what people read, _even people who used such monitors_, was black on white - it was paper.

[xigoi]

Paper doesn’t emit light, which makes the white background very different in nature.