commonmark.org - CommonMark

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It’s a plain text format for writing structured documents, based on formatting conventions from email and usenet.

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It was developed in 2004 by John Gruber in collaboration with Aaron Swartz . Gruber wrote the first markdown-to-html converter in Perl, and it soon became widely used in websites. By 2014 there were dozens of implementations in many languages.

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