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In the beginning, computers were big, and screens were small. Terminals could display 80 lines of text, in either black or white. A really good terminal would even allow you to choose between the two. The computers these terminals were attached to often took up whole rooms. Apple were the first to succesfully commericalise computers with bitmapped displays in the mid 1980s. They started with 512x342 pixel displays, and could display graphics in black and white! (This screenshot is from a Mac Plus running System 7. Fonts are by Susan Kare.)
Later full colour became standard, and displays expanded to 1024x768 pixels and larger. (The computer in the first screenshot had 4MB of memory, less than your average mobile phone. In the second, it has 1024MB. The screenshot below, also from an Apple machine, has been shrunk to fit the page.) So things have changed.
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