Theoo • An ode to plaintext (opens in new tab)

I consider myself a simple boring guy, I like ed, I enjoy eating plain pasta, I wear only a few clothes in rotation, and my favourite way of writing and reading text is plaintext. There is something appealing about .txt files for me, it's only characters that all look mostly the same, none are bold, none are bigger, none have a background. Plaintext works everywhere, every computer can render it, it's fast, it's quiet, it's most likely futureproof, it's portable, I love it. If I could, I woul...