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Markdown
An easy, lightweight markup language and tool for converting text to HTML. The main idea of creating Markdown was to have a readable text that is not obviously tagged. The tool’s features can be extended (e.g., adding tables or lists) via other similar markup languages.
| First released | March 19, 2004 |
| Developed by | John Gruber and Aaron Swarz |
| Latest stable version | Markdown 3 |
| Open-source | Yes |
Interesting facts
Some people consider Markdown to be abandonware, meaning that the author of the product does not provide any support for it.
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