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ceejayoz 85 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are we still using Markdown?

That's the sort of "we started at the acronym and worked backwards" approach the Pentagon loves to do.

qu4z-2 85 days ago [–]

I've heard them called "backronyms", which I quite like.

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