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The ideas behind Markdown are much older than HTML5 and all those tags you talk about. Wikipedia with its MediaWiki syntax is from 2001, ReStructuredText is fr
by jeltz 5y ago
The ideas behind Markdown are much older than HTML5 and all those tags you talk about.
Wikipedia with its MediaWiki syntax is from 2001, ReStructuredText is from 2002, Markdown from 2004, HTML5 from 2008. And I am sure you can find way older formats which Wikipedia and ReST used as inspiration.
- webmaven 5y agoYou missed ASCIIDoc[0] (2002) from your chosen timeframe, but also some much older Lightweight Markup Languages[1] like setext[2] from 1992. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setext https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setext