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You can also remember him for his work on Markdown, which he developed together with John Gruber (Daring Fireball): http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189 http:/
by m_st 5y ago
You can also remember him for his work on Markdown, which he developed together with John Gruber (Daring Fireball):
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189 http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown
- clydethefrog 5y agoAnd RSS! Fortunately it's still going strong and making so much information, even in the form of podcasts, accessible to all.
- peter422 5y agoFor reference he was the 11th listed author among 12 for RSS version 1. I’m sure he has some contributions but he was not the main inventor of it.
- ttepasse 5y agoAnd RSS 1.0 was a RDF-based reformulation of the XML-based RSS 0.91 from Scripting News/Dave Winer. That in turn was a fork of the XML-based RSS 0.91 from Netscape, which itself was a reformulation of the RDF-based RSS 0.9 from Netscape by Danny Libby and Ramanathan Guha. • https://web.archive.org/web/20060417192840/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss https://web.archive.org/web/20060417192840/http://diveintoma... • https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/16/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss.html https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/16/the-rise-and-demise-of-...