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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)

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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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[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 10 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 15 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 18 hours ago (4 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

[–] DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

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