diff --git a/1984/mullender/README.md b/1984/mullender/README.md
index f30575642..663ca90ad 100644
--- a/1984/mullender/README.md
+++ b/1984/mullender/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # Grand Prize
 
-Sjoerd Mullender<br>
-<https://github.com/sjoerdmullender><br>
-<br>
+Sjoerd Mullender\
+<https://github.com/sjoerdmullender>\
 
 Robbert van Renesse
 
diff --git a/1985/applin/README.md b/1985/applin/README.md
index cf9e69a5b..6f1937eb1 100644
--- a/1985/applin/README.md
+++ b/1985/applin/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Best one liner
 
-Jack Applin [with help from Robert Heckendorn]<br>
-US<br>
+Jack Applin [with help from Robert Heckendorn]\
+US\
 <https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~applin/>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1985/august/README.md b/1985/august/README.md
index 27ab703a9..7a093214e 100644
--- a/1985/august/README.md
+++ b/1985/august/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most obscure program
 
-Lennart Augustsson<br>
+Lennart Augustsson\
 <https://web.archive.org/web/20090831055828/http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~augustss>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1985/lycklama/README.md b/1985/lycklama/README.md
index c92a0c556..93c81c9b4 100644
--- a/1985/lycklama/README.md
+++ b/1985/lycklama/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Strangest appearing program
 
-Ed Lycklama<br>
+Ed Lycklama
 
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1986/applin/README.md b/1986/applin/README.md
index 5c1f3976c..9102ea7f4 100644
--- a/1986/applin/README.md
+++ b/1986/applin/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Most adaptable program
 
-Jack Applin<br>
-US<br>
+Jack Applin\
+US\
 <https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~applin/>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1986/august/README.md b/1986/august/README.md
index 6255f3c0a..cc2727488 100644
--- a/1986/august/README.md
+++ b/1986/august/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best complex task done in a complex way
 
-Lennart Augustsson<br>
+Lennart Augustsson\
 <https://web.archive.org/web/20090831055828/http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~augustss>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1986/hague/README.md b/1986/hague/README.md
index 306c8d791..ebd8ef4c1 100644
--- a/1986/hague/README.md
+++ b/1986/hague/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Worst abuse of the C preprocessor
 
-Jim Hague<br>
+Jim Hague\
 UK
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1986/holloway/README.md b/1986/holloway/README.md
index 4f865d2a1..65aba351d 100644
--- a/1986/holloway/README.md
+++ b/1986/holloway/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best simple task performed in a complex way
 
-Bruce Holloway<br>
+Bruce Holloway\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1986/pawka/README.md b/1986/pawka/README.md
index 6e9e6c6a2..3f6321b42 100644
--- a/1986/pawka/README.md
+++ b/1986/pawka/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most illegible code
 
-Michael H. Pawka<br>
+Michael H. Pawka\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1986/wall/README.md b/1986/wall/README.md
index c7b732bed..b3934e21e 100644
--- a/1986/wall/README.md
+++ b/1986/wall/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Grand prize in most well-rounded in confusion
 
-Larry Wall<br>
+Larry Wall\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1987/biggar/README.md b/1987/biggar/README.md
index 704c303e6..a5c89ba13 100644
--- a/1987/biggar/README.md
+++ b/1987/biggar/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best Abuse of the Rules
 
-Mark Biggar<br>
+Mark Biggar\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1987/heckbert/README.md b/1987/heckbert/README.md
index 4eda35d65..eafbb6c47 100644
--- a/1987/heckbert/README.md
+++ b/1987/heckbert/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best Obfuscator of Programs
 
-Paul Heckbert<br>
+Paul Heckbert\
 
 ## To build:
 
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ Try not to
 [Fold, Spindle or Mutilate](https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:788264/PDF/)
 files. :-)
 
-The judges used this program to fold up<br>
-very long lines which the BSD fold(1)<br>
-was unable to process. This program has<br>
+The judges used this program to fold up\
+very long lines which the BSD fold(1)\
+was unable to process. This program has\
 been added to the contest tool chest.
 
 ## Author's remarks:
diff --git a/1987/hines/README.md b/1987/hines/README.md
index 906114250..5fcdd9f9b 100644
--- a/1987/hines/README.md
+++ b/1987/hines/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Worst Style
 
-Spencer Hines<br>
+Spencer Hines\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1987/wall/README.md b/1987/wall/README.md
index 4a19a9aa3..ff9136217 100644
--- a/1987/wall/README.md
+++ b/1987/wall/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most Useful Obfuscation
 
-Larry Wall<br>
+Larry Wall\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1987/westley/README.md b/1987/westley/README.md
index 19d91aa5c..3d14edea3 100644
--- a/1987/westley/README.md
+++ b/1987/westley/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Best Layout
 
-Brian Westley (aka Merlyn Leroy on usenet)<br>
-US<br>
+Brian Westley (aka Merlyn Leroy on usenet)\
+US\
 <http://www.westley.org>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1988/applin/README.md b/1988/applin/README.md
index baee1b29a..4f019e961 100644
--- a/1988/applin/README.md
+++ b/1988/applin/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Best of show
 
-Jack Applin<br>
-US<br>
+Jack Applin\
+US\
 <https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~applin/>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1988/dale/README.md b/1988/dale/README.md
index 9e10d7031..14faf7ceb 100644
--- a/1988/dale/README.md
+++ b/1988/dale/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best abuse of system calls
 
-Paul Dale<br>
+Paul Dale\
 Australia
 
 ## To build:
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ detail, see [thanks-for-fixes.md](/thanks-for-fixes.md).
 
 ## Judges' remarks
 
-This entry has a very twisted flow of control via recursion, iteration\
+This entry has a very twisted flow of control via recursion, iteration
 and multi-processing.  Try to understand what is being done with the
 system calls.
 
diff --git a/1988/isaak/README.md b/1988/isaak/README.md
index a93747e76..537d30d4e 100644
--- a/1988/isaak/README.md
+++ b/1988/isaak/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best visuals
 
-Mark Isaak<br>
+Mark Isaak\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1988/litmaath/README.md b/1988/litmaath/README.md
index 958b0bb9d..9593a54d6 100644
--- a/1988/litmaath/README.md
+++ b/1988/litmaath/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best small program
 
-Maarten Litmaath<br>
+Maarten Litmaath\
 The Netherlands
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1988/phillipps/README.md b/1988/phillipps/README.md
index 8f410d3ce..220a67f61 100644
--- a/1988/phillipps/README.md
+++ b/1988/phillipps/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Least likely to compile successfully
 
-Ian Phillipps<br>
+Ian Phillipps\
 UK
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1988/reddy/README.md b/1988/reddy/README.md
index bcdc3baf6..95cef11c3 100644
--- a/1988/reddy/README.md
+++ b/1988/reddy/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most useful Obfuscated C program
 
-Gopi Reddy<br>
+Gopi Reddy\
 US
 
 
diff --git a/1988/robison/README.md b/1988/robison/README.md
index 885e796dd..6fb9cc94f 100644
--- a/1988/robison/README.md
+++ b/1988/robison/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best abuse of C constructs
 
-Arch D. Robison<br>
+Arch D. Robison\
 US
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1988/spinellis/README.md b/1988/spinellis/README.md
index 2aa122781..c289e83b7 100644
--- a/1988/spinellis/README.md
+++ b/1988/spinellis/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Best abuse of the rules
 
-Diomidis Spinellis<br>
-GR<br>
-<https://www.spinellis.gr/><br>
+Diomidis Spinellis\
+GR\
+<https://www.spinellis.gr/>\
 Mastodon: <https://mstdn.social/@DSpinellis>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/1991/fine/README.md b/1991/fine/README.md
index a38e1c0ac..b22c42441 100644
--- a/1991/fine/README.md
+++ b/1991/fine/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Best One Liner
 
-Thomas A. Fine<br>
-US<br>
+Thomas A. Fine\
+US\
 [@thomasafine@social.linux.pizza](https://social.linux.pizza/@thomasafine)
 
 ## To build:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ rotated from `the rug gary lent`!
 
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
-This filter, 80 chars plus a newline, fits into a single line on most\
+This filter, 80 chars plus a newline, fits into a single line on most
 terminals (unless your terminal has a line wrap mis-feature :-)).
 
 Note in 2023: fixing this entry to work with modern systems increased the size,
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ originally to 106 characters but dropped down to 85 with clever use of the
 Makefile and removal of a cast that was not strictly necessary.
 
 This entry is likely one of the smallest C implementations of this
-filter, excluding programs that resort to command line or include\
+filter, excluding programs that resort to command line or include
 file tricks.
 
 How does this program work?  Which 3 bytes of C code can be changed
-into 2 bytes, allowing the program to still work, but also stripping\
+into 2 bytes, allowing the program to still work, but also stripping
 the high bit off some input?
 
 ## Author's remarks:
diff --git a/1996/eldby/README.md b/1996/eldby/README.md
index b40d6a9e5..817dae47b 100644
--- a/1996/eldby/README.md
+++ b/1996/eldby/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Best Output
 
-Thor Eldby<br>
+Thor Eldby\
 Norway
 
 
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ Use `./eldby` as you would `./eldby.alt` above.
 
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
-We were impressed by the author's ability to render spheres in 3D\
+We were impressed by the author's ability to render spheres in 3D
 in a very small chunk of code.
 
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
 This program shows flying spheres. The program eats CPU on lesser
-equipped systems. The program will run until termination. Terminal\
+equipped systems. The program will run until termination. Terminal
 must be vt100 or better with 80 columns and 24 rows or more.
 
 
diff --git a/2001/kev/README.md b/2001/kev/README.md
index 5d166e9f7..1cd0d83f4 100644
--- a/2001/kev/README.md
+++ b/2001/kev/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Best Curses Game
 
-Kevin Pulo<br>
-Australia<br>
-<http://www.kev.pulo.com.au/><br>
+Kevin Pulo\
+Australia\
+<http://www.kev.pulo.com.au/>\
 Mastodon: <https://fosstodon.org/@devkev>
 
 
diff --git a/2013/cable2/README.md b/2013/cable2/README.md
index 32172192b..7939deb94 100644
--- a/2013/cable2/README.md
+++ b/2013/cable2/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Best of show
 
-Adrian Cable<br>
-<adrian.cable@gmail.com><br>
+Adrian Cable\
+<adrian.cable@gmail.com>\
 
 ## To build:
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ How about about hand-written C code:
 ```
 
 Sometimes typeset text will work, if the typeset has characters that
-are enough to the supported handwritten shapes.  For example<br>
+are enough to the supported handwritten shapes.  For example
 Menlo, 160 pt:
 
 ```sh
diff --git a/2013/cable3/README.md b/2013/cable3/README.md
index 31d18b213..cbf5e0698 100644
--- a/2013/cable3/README.md
+++ b/2013/cable3/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Largest small system emulator
 
-Adrian Cable<br>
+Adrian Cable\
 <adrian.cable@gmail.com>
 
 
diff --git a/2013/hou/README.md b/2013/hou/README.md
index ae8c3014e..d3169c3f8 100644
--- a/2013/hou/README.md
+++ b/2013/hou/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Best use of 1 Infinite Loop
 
-Qiming Hou<br>
-<hqm03ster@gmail.com><br>
-<http://www.houqiming.net><br>
+Qiming Hou\
+<hqm03ster@gmail.com>\
+<http://www.houqiming.net>\
 
 ## To build:
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ restrictions](self-imposed-restrictions) section below for more details.
 * The building process does not involve any OS tool beyond cc and make. No gzip
 compression! `a.c.gz` doesn't fit in 2053 bytes, anyway.
 * Neither [hou.c](hou.c) nor `a.c` (the *real* decompressed source) uses
-`#define` (or `cc -D`) at all.\
+`#define` (or `cc -D`) at all.
 * The source code is not required at runtime.
 * `a.c` does not drop optional features to reduce size. There are pure
 optimization code that can be dropped without affecting the converged output
diff --git a/2013/mills/README.md b/2013/mills/README.md
index f7d0fbe57..0ee04a038 100644
--- a/2013/mills/README.md
+++ b/2013/mills/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Most timely rendered
 
-Christopher Mills<br>
-<mrxo@sonic.net><br>
+Christopher Mills\
+<mrxo@sonic.net>
 
 ## To build:
 
diff --git a/2013/misaka/README.md b/2013/misaka/README.md
index 302a7433e..39d48aec7 100644
--- a/2013/misaka/README.md
+++ b/2013/misaka/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Most catty
 
-Don Yang<br>
-<omoikane@uguu.org><br>
+Don Yang\
+<omoikane@uguu.org>\
 <http://uguu.org/>
 
 ## To build:
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ they tall, fat, long or squat, this source code is sure to amuse.
 
 #### Slight diversion
 
-While one of the judges was reviewing this entry on the stern of the\
+While one of the judges was reviewing this entry on the stern of the
 [Island Sky](http://www.noble-caledonia.co.uk/information/detail.asp?id=2&spid=76)
 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean waiting for the
 [total solar eclipse of 2013](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_November_3,_2013)
diff --git a/2013/morgan1/README.md b/2013/morgan1/README.md
index f069a2dcb..1a070522d 100644
--- a/2013/morgan1/README.md
+++ b/2013/morgan1/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Smallest large system simulator
 
-Yves-Marie Morgan<br>
+Yves-Marie Morgan\
 <yves-marie.morgan@parrot.com>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/2013/morgan2/README.md b/2013/morgan2/README.md
index c85ae1219..5c0fa5644 100644
--- a/2013/morgan2/README.md
+++ b/2013/morgan2/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most playfully versatile
 
-Yves-Marie Morgan<br>
+Yves-Marie Morgan\
 <yves-marie.morgan@parrot.com>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/2013/robison/README.md b/2013/robison/README.md
index 8d004f058..3b4d330ca 100644
--- a/2013/robison/README.md
+++ b/2013/robison/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most poetic use of strings
 
-Arch D. Robison<br>
+Arch D. Robison\
 <arch.d.robison@gmail.com>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/2014/birken/README.md b/2014/birken/README.md
index 07c46544f..102d2cba2 100644
--- a/2014/birken/README.md
+++ b/2014/birken/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Best use of port 1701
 
-Michael Birken<br>
+Michael Birken\
 <o__1@hotmail.com><br>\
-<http://www.meatfighter.com/><br>
-<br>
-Alexander Prishchepov<br>
-<alepov-github@yahoo.com><br>
-<https://github.com/sans17/><br>
+<http://www.meatfighter.com/>
+
+Alexander Prishchepov\
+<alepov-github@yahoo.com>\
+<https://github.com/sans17/>
 
 ## To build:
 
diff --git a/2014/deak/README.md b/2014/deak/README.md
index 204280d34..1f061df78 100644
--- a/2014/deak/README.md
+++ b/2014/deak/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Most underscored argument
 
-Ferenc Deak<br>
+Ferenc Deak\
 <fritzone@gmail.com>
 
 ## To build:
diff --git a/2014/endoh1/README.md b/2014/endoh1/README.md
index 3f231b978..0044e713f 100644
--- a/2014/endoh1/README.md
+++ b/2014/endoh1/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Most square (YODA award)
 
-Yusuke Endoh<br>
-<mame@ruby-lang.org><br>
+Yusuke Endoh\
+<mame@ruby-lang.org>\
 <https://github.com/mame/>\
 Mastodon: [@mame@ruby.social](https://ruby.social/@mame)
 
diff --git a/2014/endoh2/README.md b/2014/endoh2/README.md
index 5aff8b808..dc62abdde 100644
--- a/2014/endoh2/README.md
+++ b/2014/endoh2/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Best use of bioinformatics
 
-Yusuke Endoh<br>
-<mame@ruby-lang.org><br>
-<https://github.com/mame/><br>
+Yusuke Endoh\
+<mame@ruby-lang.org>\
+<https://github.com/mame/>\
 Mastodon: [@mame@ruby.social](https://ruby.social/@mame)
 
 ## To build: