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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 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

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