Old World, Meet New World

Gmail introduced themes in Beta.  Some of them are as ugly as what we expect from Microsoft for doing cutesie things in PowerPoint.

One of them really doesn’t belong in the bunch and that’s because it’s pure irony — the terminal theme.

For those of us who remember using Unix machines and VMS boxes in the early 80s, terminal emulation in green text on a black screen was sort of a nightmare that color monitors helped us escape from.

But for those for whom the memories have faded or for whom they never existed, there’s now a Gmail theme to bring back the agony.

I’ll try it out for a day just to satisfy my sense of irony.

[Hat tip: iMac4Life via Twitter.]