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You write: > Huh? Markdown was created in 2004 … Did you read OP? > > It didn't start when it was named and mapped to HTML. Markdown is a formalisation of c

You write: > Huh? Markdown was created in 2004 … Did you read OP? > > It didn't start when it was named and mapped to HTML. Markdown is a formalisation of conventions which were in common in email & news long before HTML even existed.

magpi3 5y ago
Yes, but the point of Markdown is mapping those conventions to HTML. The mapping was the new thing that made it Markdown.