“Enter John and his magical text files.” - The Verge
1 day 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 also argues that …
How Markdown Conquered the World: From Blog to AI | byteiota
1 day 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 on January 9, …
Markdown's Enduring Impact: Revolutionizing Web Writing from ...
20 hours 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 collaboration by …
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
2 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 relevance probably …
Techmeme: A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which ...
8 hours 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 high …
How Markdown Took Over the World - Tao of Mac
23 hours ago · I took a long detour through Textile before accepting Markdown had won (and am still paying the price for that, with thousands of Textile posts still to be converted), but the one thing I’ve …
John Gruber - Wikipedia
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technology blogger, UI designer, and creator of the Markdown markup language. Gruber writes the Apple enthusiast blog Daring Fireball and hosts its accompanying …