Getting Started With Markdown
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4 min readMay 10, 2020
What is Markdown?
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax aimed at making writing for the internet easier. Markdown is also a lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax.
John Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004 in collaboration with Aaron Swartz on the syntax, with the goal of enabling people to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain…