[kisonecat]

I'm terrified of opening a paren andforgetting to close it! How terrifying to find a tagged paren that cannot be closed!

"please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming" <plaintext>s

[layer8]

It was an easy way to use an existing plain-text document where HTML was expected.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-html-spec-0...

The PLAINTEXT element was replaced by the LISTING element (which was itself deprecated in HTML 3.2): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1866#section-5.5.2....