Anil Dash
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126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Anil Dash’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I got a front row seat when it was created.
Six Apart was the company that made Movable Type, that content, right?
I think it's one of the most important reasons it took off, right?
So to John's point, we'd made this tool, you know, movable type that was being used
by, you know, at that time, Gawker and Huffington Post, like all of the big blogs, right?
And none of those folks liked HTML.
Like, so you had like two or three people in the office who were like, they really knew HTML and everybody else was kind of like enduring it.
And when we talk about like literally to put a image in a post,
So they'd be writing about Britney Spears was caught at this club doing this, which was like half the stories on Gawker at the time.
And then to put in an image, they're like, this is miserable.
And then what was really important too was when they wrote the post in Markdown, the other person didn't even have to know it was Markdown.
It was literally what they would have written in an email.
And they said that explicitly.
They're like, oh, this is normal.
And we don't feel like nerds when we see this.
And so that became the default.
And that actually was different than textile.
Just like John, all of us were such huge fans of Dean.
He was just one of those super influential early folks that...
We were all just kind of in awe of him.
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