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Markdown is a simplified formatting language commonly used for easy text-to-HTML conversion. Quite simply, it’s a human readable and writable form of HTML. It’s simple, clean, fast, and flexible. And its extended portability and precision, coupled with its simplistic implementation, make it a favorable tool. Markdown has come a long way since it was first created in 2004 by John Gruber. Today, it’s widely adopted across the web. It empowers writers and bloggers with the ability to write their HTML, without the use of overcomplicated and visually exhausting code. Similarly, Markdown is increasingly popular among a more technical crowd as well. In fact, it’s the central language to both GitHub and Stack Overflow—two […]