5 Apr
2005
5 Apr
'05
12:49 a.m.
As opposed to the age and ubiquitousnouss of plain text? I'd suggest people have been commmunicating in a written form without the aid of markup for, ooh, several thousand years.
How then would you categorise different colour pens / paints and calligraphy?
Hahaha. Fundamentally different to markup, in that it's not up to the viewer to render it appropriately.