“Enter John and his magical text files.” - The Verge
3 days ago · Anil Dash wrote a really fun, really deep history of Markdown, the text markup language John Gruber created that has subsequently become totally ubiquitous online. Dash …
How Markdown Conquered the World: From Blog to AI | byteiota
3 days ago · Markdown, the simple text formatting language John Gruber created for his personal blog in 2004, now controls the entire technology ecosystem. Anil Dash published an analysis …
How Markdown Took Over the World - Slashdot
1 day ago · 22 years ago, developer and columnist John Gruber released Markdown, a simple plain-text formatting system designed to spare writers the headache of memorizing arcane …
Daring Fireball, by John Gruber
Dec 1, 2010 · His brother John, working at the movie visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, found it useful for editing photos, but it wasn’t intended to be a product.
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
4 days ago · John’s timing was also perfect — from the doldrums of that era, Apple’s stock price would rise by about 120,000% in the years after Daring Fireball started, and its cultural …
Markdown's Enduring Impact: Revolutionizing Web Writing from ...
2 days ago · Markdown, created in 2004 by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, revolutionized web writing with its simple, readable syntax. From blogs and code docs to AI tools and corporate …
Techmeme: A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which ...
2 days ago · 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 …