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Post #147746 by freddiefreelance on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 12:13 PM

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Back in the olden days, when we used to run a computer by rubbing two sticks together (the late 1970's, before then you would run a computer by banging 2 rocks together), you would have a dark screen with lighter letters on your terminal. After many hours of coding you would start getting eye strain, and many programmers would reverse the foreground & background, put on sun glasses & continue coding.