I was about to say; even before I knew markdown, I was using a lot of its conventions informally. I was using # to denote headers, and surrounding things with

I was about to say; even before I knew markdown, I was using a lot of its conventions informally. I was using # to denote headers, and surrounding things with asterisks to emphasize them, using > to denote quotes. When I found out about markdown, it took me about ten minutes to learn because it was stuff I was largely already doing.