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Markdown

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Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, and large language models, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.

Facts
First Released
2004 1
Paradigm
Declarative markup 1
Significance
This was addressed in 2014 when long-standing Markdown contributors released CommonMark, an unambiguous specification and test suite for Markdown. 1
Connections

Associated With

HTML, Programming Languages

Markdown is designed to "optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

Influenced By

HTML, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: Markdown

Invented By

John Gruber, Pioneers
Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): Markdown
Sources
1. Markdown (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
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    John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language.
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    This was addressed in 2014 when long-standing Markdown contributors released CommonMark, an unambiguous specification and test suite for Markdown.
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Wikidata: Markdown
Wikidata Q1193600, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)View the Source
Programming Language Database (PLDB): Markdown
Programming Language Database (PLDB)Invented By: John Gruber, Page lead
Quote, Invented By: John Gruber, Page lead
created in 2004 by John Gruber
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