Can someone help me to understand Markdown? Its not clicking with me!

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@SeaPetals said:
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Here’s a guide to Markdown.

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@rhrmn said:

@SeaPetals said:
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Here’s a guide to Markdown.

@rhrmn very nice, thanks.

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Never heard of Hyper Text Markdown Language?
Me too :wink:

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Quote from Wikipedia
“Markdown is a lightweight markup language”

Aka htm"d"l many website are written this way lol.

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@ScaryBoot said:
Quote from Wikipedia
“Markdown is a lightweight markup language”

Aka htm"d"l many website are written this way lol.

@ScaryBoot I opened what rhrmn sent me, a part of my brain will not except the understanding no matter how many times I read it. I do thank you for helping.

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@PCS70 said:
Never heard of Hyper Text Markdown Language?
Me too :wink:

@PCS70
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

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@SeaPetals Just never had heard of that specific term, but I do understand the technical difference between markup and markdown. And because the latter is much more efficient and smarter than using markup only I can also understand the reason of naming it markdown.