History of HTML

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History of HTML

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History of HTML

HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the predominant and most currently most popular language for creating web pages . It is a well-designed language to describe the structure of text-based information in a document by using certain tags referred to as HTML tags and using certain text links , heads , paragraphs , tables , lists and headings

While HTML is written in the form of tags , surrounded by HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Brackets " \l "Angle_brackets_or_chevrons_ .3C_ .3E " \o "Brackets

" angle brackets HTML can also describe , to some degree , the appearance and HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Semantics " \o "Semantics " semantics of a document , and can include embedded forms , and other HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Scripting_language " \o "Scripting language " scripting language codes , which can affect the behavior of HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Web_browser " \o "Web browser Web browsers and other HTML processors

It is assumed that what made this language a very popular web development language is its English-like characteristic which makes it relatively easy to comprehend , and memorize the tags as compared to most other languages

It was in the late 1980 's , when the physicist Tim Berners-Lee , who was an independent contractor at CERN , proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE , a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents . In 1989 Berners-Lee and CERN Robert Cailliau , a data systems engineer from CERN each submitted separate proposals for an Internet-based hypertext system providing similar functionality . The following year , they collaborated on a joint proposal , the Worldwide Web (W3 ) project this proposal was accepted by CERN and as of now , and the project continued to grow from the day that it was developed , and continuous to grow up until present

In the advent of the interne and in the continuous increase in its popularity , came parallel the advent of the web-development language HTML

Although it has already been an accepted and established concept in the field of academics as early as the 1940s . It was with the advent of he personal computer that hypertext came into popularity

Bill Atkinson came up with the astounding idea in the late 1980s . It was then the he and his team developed Hypercard , an application for the Macintosh Operating System . Hypercard allows users to construct a series of on-screen `filing cards ' that would be able to contain text and graphics . Users can also navigate through these filing cards by pressing on-screen buttons , which were designed for simple and plain navigation

Hypercard easily became popular and was integrated on many other applications . Toolbox , for Personal Computers was developed and popularized in the 1990s for hypertext training courses . These courses came up with a more advanced navigation system wherein viewers or users were able to view pages with buttons which can help them navigate forward or backward or jump to a

Hypercard and its co-programs easily became popularized , however they were still held back by certain limitations . The major limitation was...