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Back in the day, for people who spent many hours each day in front of a 'display':

1. People using TTY's used black ink on very-light-yellow roll paper, or

2. Those lucky enough to have ADM-3 VDT's often chose light green or light orange on black.

Just sayin.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220#/media/File:DEC_VT220_te...