@joacim @jeremiak @GossiTheDog @gruber Bro everyone knows Gruber is the credited author. Barely anyone knows that Aaron gave significant input though.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - Gruber’s own words on release: “Aaron Swartz deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his feedback on the design of Markdown’s formatting syntax. Markdown is __much__ better thanks to Aaron’s ideas, feedback, and testing.”