Ode to Plaintext

Journal entries. Meeting notes. Shopping lists. Horrible confessions. Funny jokes. Strict reprimands. Present worries. Joys expressed. Business letters. Love letters. Historical texts. Worlds imagined. Salacious missives. Quick thoughts. Express as plaintext.

No margins. No pagination. No justification. No headers. No footers. No layouts. No formats. No fonts. No typefaces. Only plaintext.

Floppy disks. CD-ROMs. Hard Drives. Flash Drives. SSDs. Magnetic Tape. Store plaintext.

BASIC. Fortran. COBAL. Pascal. C. C++. C#. Objective-C. Swift. Ruby. Rails. Python. Go. Rust. Javascript. Code in plaintext.

Airlines. Hospitals. Banks. Stock Exchanges. Newsrooms. Weather Stations. Satellites. Communicate via plaintext.

Days. Years. Decades. Centuries. Millennia. Futureproof is plaintext.

Dotfiles. Plists. Ini. Cfg. Sys. Bat. Rc. JSON. Yaml. XML. Configure with plaintext.

Ink. Paper. OCR. Pinfeed. Dot Matrix. Laser. LED. Ink Jet. Output plaintext.

Latin. English. French. German. Spanish. Portuguese. Mandarin. Japanese. Korean. Cantonese. Languages of plaintext.

EBCDIC, ASCII, ISO 8859-1, ISO 2022, UTF-8, UTF-16. Evolution of plaintext.

Uppercase. Lowercase. Numbers. Symbols. Kanji. Umlates. Symbols. Emojis. Characters of plaintext.

WordStar. WordPerfect. Ami Pro. Word. Word Pro. Pages. OpenOffice. LibreOffice. Affinity Publisher. Quartz. PageMaker. InDesign. Publish with plaintext.

Edlin. Copy Con. Vi. Vim. Emacs. NeoVim. Pico. Nano. TextEdit. NotePad. NotePad2. BBEdit. TextWrangler. TextMate. Sublime. Atom. VS Code. iA Writer. Edit plaintext.

Latex. Markdown. Textile. RDoc. Fountain. LaTeX. BBCode. Wikitext. Layout with plaintext.

HTML. XML. CSV. JSON. Data as plaintext.

Exterior day. Wide shot. Dialog. Close up. Over the shoulder. Explosion. Skyscraper. Night. Sunset. Beach. Music. Love. Hate. Action. Script via plaintext.

Words. Sentences. Paragraphs. Chapters. Verse. Lyrics. Sonnet. Ode. Poetry. Haiuku. Scenes. Snippets. Summaries. Conversations. Literature is plaintext.

Dear Diary. Dear Sirs. Dear Madame. Dear John. Dear God. Dear Universe. Correspondence is plaintext.

Simple. Universal. Supported. Understood. Everything is plaintext.