From: anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com   
      
   Rich:   
      
   > To get a good idea why 'light mode' came about you have to   
   > remember how the first GUI's were 'advertised'.  As a   
   > "desktop" -- with most of the UI elements styled to   
   > resemble a real world physical desktop (anyone remember   
   > apple's 'waste basket' that looked like a typical office   
   > desk side waste basket).   
   >   
   > And at the time, what were "real world desks" covered in?   
   > Loads of sheets of paper.   
   >   
   > And what 'color' were most of those sheets of paper?  With   
   > rare exception, they were white paper with black   
   > typewriter ink for the text (or black or blue ink for   
   > handwritten paper).   
      
   It is a very plausible conjecture.  If it is true, those   
   early desktop GUIs were the progenitors of the modern   
   abomination known as material design, and the entire field   
   of UX (aka usee exploitation, a backformation by xwindows).   
   Using concepts from everyday life in the physical world is   
   not a bad idea per se, the actual vice is trying to apply   
   them literally rather than in a more abstract manner as   
   behooves the symbolic system that the computer is.   
      
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