1999 January: Pre-History

From the author:

"My really first attempts of a text conversion tool began back in 1999, as a very simple and limited Bourne Shell script that converts marked text to an HTML page. Yes, Yet-Another txt2html tool. Everyone, everywhere must have done one of this already... In short, it just recognized simple marks such as *bold*, /italic/ , _under_, and escape the classic < & > HTML special characters. Not impressive, but hey! I was young ;)"