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> I've been reading and writing HTML since the 90s and off the top of my head can't recall ever seeing <ol>

I have to ask: is this /s? Are you really saying you never seen an ordered list in 30 years working on the web? How about <dl> ?

If you’re not joking then it’s honestly wild to me.

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It is basic Markdown... maybe they never investigated the HTML Markdown produces on GitHub and so on? <ol> does seem hard to avoid.

Didn’t markdown come out in the early 2000s? So you’d have to try HARD to not see a <ol> especially because pre html5 there were even fewer tags available.

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