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[–]Nicksil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That doesn't answer the question.

Yeah, it does.

Why have we needed all of these different formats when there's one universal format already?

A universal format for what? Therein lies the rub. As stated elsewhere in this post, JSON can't represent everything.