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    9 months ago

    Markup languages.

    Which were done as such to allow people to write a sentence on each line in their editor, remember notepad etc. doesn’t wrap lines so you’ve got to scroll all the way over to read your lines.
    This became the de-facto way of formatting most things, and it’s easier to do newlines like that than using a br tag (and html tags generally) which are cringe af

    Note you can also do a smaller newline with two spaces at the end of the preceding line