BBCode - Text markup language

BBCode is a text markup language created in 1998.

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BBCode or Bulletin Board Code is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards and on sites based on MediaWiki. The available tags are usually indicated by square brackets ([ ]) surrounding a keyword, and they are parsed by the message board system before being translated into a markup language that web browsers understand—usually HTML or XHTML.BBCode was introduced in 1998 by the messageboard software Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) implemented in Perl. In 2000 BBCode was used in phpBB—an internet forum system written in PHP and also XMB forum. Read more on Wikipedia...

BBCode Wikipedia page
BBCode first developed in Coalson LLC
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for BBCode
See also: (4 related languages)MediaWiki, HTML, PHP, Regular Expressions

Example from Wikipedia:

[table]
[tr]
  [td]table cell 1[/td]
  [td]table cell 2[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
  [td]table cell 3[/td]
  [td]table cell 4[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]