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xp84 • today at 1:34 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Don't forget the Microsoft and the competing Open Office's twin XML formats.

Basically it's like a list of everything that was clean-sheet invented like ~ 1996-2007 used XML, then over the course of about 2 years it transitioned, and almost nothing invented after 2009 or so used it. It was like the whole software industry realized what a huge mistake and pivoted to JSON, all at once.