The best time to truly implement the Markdown markup language into Google Docs was when Google Docs was in the early 2010s, but yesterday was a pretty good time, too. Google Docs conjoined features from the acquisitions of related software companies Writely, DocVerse, and QuickOffice and had jammed them all together into Drive by 2012. By that point, Markdown , a project of web writer John Gruber with input from data activist Aaron Swartz , had been solidified and gathering steam for about ei
