Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown’s originator’s Wikipedia page using markdown.

    “In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as “the true structured text format”. Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester … Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber’s Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz’s earlier atx language (2002)” from wikipedia