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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Monty Python is timeless ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"LOL", I guess?