I'll take your word for it :-) I don't really remember the early web well enough to recall. I was much more IRC/Gopher then WWW back then. Also, I was too cheap to pay for Turbo-C on windows back then, so I was using linux/gcc. I missed most of the early IE 'fun' :-)
Actually, come to think of it - I think front page was the harbinger of white backgrounds - not ie. I think the standard ie user style sheet also used black on grey.
