People had already ditched writing HTML for years before Markdown came out.
People were just using other markup languages like rST.
Other attempts had already proven HTML to be a bad language for rough documentation. Someone then just needed to write a spec that was easy to implement and Markdown was that.
People were just using other markup languages like rST.
Other attempts had already proven HTML to be a bad language for rough documentation. Someone then just needed to write a spec that was easy to implement and Markdown was that.