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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
Um, no. HTML is (typically) ASCII or UTF-8, but that's not at all the same thing as plain text.
HTML lets you use bold and italics. With plain text, you have to resort to *hacks* like _these_.
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HTML lets you indicate various types of emphasis in its plain test. How that emphasis is interpreted and displayed is up to the reader, and in many cases, is variable.
HTML will continue to be readable (especially as a subset of XML) for longer than anyone alive to will live, and the documentation on how to interpret it will be around for as long as computers are around.