History of Unix Manpages

As noted when this has been submitted in the past, this history pretty much stops in 2008, even though the copyright year has been changed since.

It also confuses, as computer people are prone to doing, a disclaimer with a disclosure.

But that disclosure does explain why it completely misses DocBook XML, many things things like pod2man, ASCIIDOC, slashdoc, and a lot more. There have been many developments in the 21st century. If you pick up NetBSD 10, for example, you'll find that it comes with its manual pages in parallel HTML versions, with html[1-9] subdirectories paralleling the man[1-9] subdirectories.

I have parallel DocBook XML subdirectories on some of my systems, and a DocBook XML viewer analogue to the mdless that was mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347893 half a decade ago.