That's not quite right, though. Markdown was invented in 2004, GitHub was founded in 2008. Its target audience was document authors in general and started as a tool to format blog posts and emails.Kamijou Touma wrote:Do any of you realize that MD started out on github?
I meant that MD didn't get big until github. Until github came around most people and sites knew almoust nothing about MD much less would they talk about it.JoshyPHP wrote:That's not quite right, though. Markdown was invented in 2004, GitHub was founded in 2008. Its target audience was document authors in general and started as a tool to format blog posts and emails.Kamijou Touma wrote:Do any of you realize that MD started out on github?
yes, it's because (most) of my OSS software being hosted on Github that i started putting phpbb extension readme's in MD format. Also, Visual studio has some nice extensions for formatting MD files.Kamijou Touma wrote:Do any of you realize that MD started out on github?
That is exactly where MD falls short.Sajaki wrote:[...] Markdown is good for basic formatting only.Kamijou Touma wrote:Do any of you realize that MD started out on github?
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