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by dragonwriter 4100 days ago
> I got into Python in 2002, and my recollection is that RST was introduced a few years before Markdown.

That's true: According to Wikipedia RST is from 2002 (so is AsciiDoc), Markdown from 2004. Perhaps also important though is that RST was introduced as a direct successor to StructuredText, which apparently, had some currency in the Python community previously.