While very popular and well-known by the tech community, markdown is very niche and unknown to the general public. Fun fact: markdown's syntax was inspired by

While very popular and well-known by the tech community, markdown is very niche and unknown to the general public. Fun fact: markdown's syntax was inspired by plain-text email conventions: > ...the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/