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HTML
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and is used to create Web
pages
After Vannevar Bush first proposed the basics of hypertext in 1945, it
laid the foundation for Tim Berners-Lee and others to invent the World
Wide Web, HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer
Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators) in 1990.
Definition of HTML
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, it is the authoring language
used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is used to define
the structure and layout of a Web page, how a page looks and any special
functions. HTML does this by using what are called tags that have
attributes. For example
means a paragraph break. As the viewer of a web page you don't see the
HTML, it is hidden from your view, however, you do the results.
Tim Berners-Lee & HTML
Tim Berners-Lee was the primary author of html,
assisted by his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific
organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee is currently
the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the group that sets
technical standards for the Web.
View a screen shot of Tim Berners-Lee's Browser Editor as developed in 1991-92 This
was a true browser editor for the first version of HTML and ran on a
NeXt workstation. Implemented in Objective-C, it, made it easy to
create, view and edit web documents. Hypertext Markup Language was
formally published on June 1993.
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