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Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn't "support" it, it's still totally readable. The formatting doesn't get in the way of readability.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While true, doesn't have anything to do with my comment?

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hans was the name of one of the German characters in my elementary summer camp fire theater show in which the Americas would call out random German names to get them to stand and shoot them in a World War Two reenactment

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is actually a Monty Python sketch that originally plays in the first world war.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Glad it could be revived 100 years later :) didn’t know they were playing Monthy Python that early

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Monty Python is timeless ;)

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

"LOL", I guess?