# How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash

<https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Markdown really is everywhere. I write these emails in Markdown. Every comment I have about the links is written in Markdown. I take notes in Markdown. I blog in Markdown. And now every LLM thinks and writes in Markdown. It is literally everywhere. I particularly like the list of 10 reasons Markdown worked.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT337: Weekly Thing 337 / Sunrise, Vision, Offline](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/337/), Notable

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