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Never used a monitor where that was the only option?

My lawn: get off of it.

Let's be fair: The old green-screen monitors had much larger font sizes. Maybe that was less harsh. Also, I had younger eyes. ;)

Does anyone have an actual Apple II green-screen display (40 or 80 columns, 24 rows) emulated in Javascript to share with us? I found an Apple II emulator but it only plays games.

The shapes on old green-screen monitors were also significantly softer, which I believe helped readability as well. Small, sharp green text on a black background is just killer on the eyes.

What's your OS?

OS X defaults to much softer font rendering than most systems, and Windows/Linux can be tweaked (try googling for things like "OS X style font" or "soft font rendering" with the name of your OS tacked on)

http://www.readability.com/

The bookmarklet will make it (and other sites) easy to read.

http://www.readability.com/articles/s15uh64p

no kidding, this is even worse when you are on a tablet that doesn't support bookmarklets