John Gruber
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I have a concrete example.
Yeah, but GitHub was a huge one.
It was like a step change.
Yeah, and because they kind of said, hey, if you're using GitHub and you're going to write something in text, it's going to be in GitHub flavored markdown.
And whether you like it or not, and they didn't really ask opinions.
And then that kind of forced the technical minded people who I think just basically had the mindset of, I know HTML, I don't need a baby language in front of HTML, right?
it's not that you need it.
It's that once you start using it, you're not going to want to go back.
It really is one of those things where you have to use it for a while before you see the appeal.
Whereas before you use it and you see this is the markdown and this is the HTML that it will generate.
You're like, yeah, I get it, but I don't need that.
I could just write the HTML, but then you start using it and you're like, oh, I can never go back.
And that's what GitHub kind of did.
And it made, it put it in the heads of technical people.
And then they became the, uh,