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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[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago

Monty Python is timeless ;)

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 10 months ago

"LOL", I guess?

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