“Enter John and his magical text files.” - The Verge
2 days ago · Anil Dash wrote a really fun, really deep history of Markdown, the text markup language John Gruber created that has subsequently become totally ubiquitous online. Dash also argues that …
How Markdown Conquered the World: From Blog to AI | byteiota
2 days ago · Markdown, the simple text formatting language John Gruber created for his personal blog in 2004, now controls the entire technology ecosystem. Anil Dash published an analysis on January …
Markdown's Enduring Impact: Revolutionizing Web Writing from ...
1 day ago · Markdown, created in 2004 by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, revolutionized web writing with its simple, readable syntax. From blogs and code docs to AI tools and corporate collaboration by …
Techmeme: A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which ...
17 hours ago · A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber — Nearly every bit of the high …
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
2 days ago · John’s timing was also perfect — from the doldrums of that era, Apple’s stock price would rise by about 120,000% in the years after Daring Fireball started, and its cultural relevance probably …
Daring Fireball, by John Gruber
Dec 1, 2010 · His brother John, working at the movie visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, found it useful for editing photos, but it wasn’t intended to be a product.
John Gruber - Wikipedia
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technology blogger, UI designer, and creator of the Markdown markup language. Gruber writes the Apple enthusiast blog Daring Fireball and hosts its accompanying …