The early Web —
There was a social-norm among some of the people on the early Web, that you (the creator of web-site or web-page) should never set the text-color or background-color of a web-page.
That the user should decide what text-color and background-color web-pages are displayed in in their web-browsers.
That gave the early web a distinctive look (due to the default text-color and background-color) — black text on a grey background.
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