Does color affect us?

Question

Health and computer

Why "green text on a black background" is popular in hacker movies and old terminal computers. It is that green, and not, for example, white, but rather gray (it is more pleasant).
Why do some people prefer to disable syntax?
Yes, "taste" can be traced already in the question itself. But if there are substantiated facts or, better, studies, then I would be glad to read it.

"Stupid question is the one that was not asked"

Answer 1

Because of "phosphor P1 is green, phosphor P3 is light brown, or phosphor P4 is white" the IBM 5151 used the former.

Answer 2

The green text on a black background is a tribute to the first CRT display terminals.
Here you can read about them: Computer terminal
And here you can see the instructions for the Datapoint 3300 and pay attention to the picture.
As for the rest, it's more of a personal preference.

Answer 3

because it used to be like that in the old days.
always yours, KO.

Answer 4

The color of the first displays was determined not by aesthetic qualities, but by the ratio of price and phosphorescent characteristics of the phosphor, which made it possible to smooth out flicker at low hertz.

Answer 5

because the human eye is most sensitive to the green spectrum
, so the first terminal was using a green phosphor (IBM 5151)
Yes, and we used it on ours. For example, I had a chance to work on DVK-2 for a couple of years - the screen with green symbols was

Answer 6

Because green is soothing. Sit behind him for eight hours ... There were terminals with white (gray) color, but there were few of them, mostly green.
SM jobs in 1988 were green on black, EC in 1990 green on black.