I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane
He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.
The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.
TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.
When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.
When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.
For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago
*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.
Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.
On the #AmIRC channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.
So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.
https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html
