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The story behind the story

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A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber

Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps …

Anil Dash

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  • @anildash.com Anil Dash on bluesky
    Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things.  This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/202…
  • @sesmith.lol S. E. Smith on bluesky
    Love this @anildash.com longread on Markdown; I learned so much about the early history of blogging and the evolution of Markdown, which is indeed everywhere now.  (Fond memories of fiddling around with HTML on my blog aside.)