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for those who are wondering why it's called markdown: "mark" was the codename of a military helicopter with experimental document formatting technology on it, which crashed in a field outside aaron swartz' house in 2004. swartz and john gruber raided the helicopter for its technology and publicized it as a convenient text-formatting tool

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@typhlosion the tool was actually meant to be a red herring or a honeypot or whatever

the real value of this helicopter is it was

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