Until 1990, accessing information through the Internet was very technical. It was so hard that even physicists were often frustrated when trying to exchange information. One such physicist, the now famous Tim Berners Lee, created a way to cross-reference text on the Internet through ‘hypertext‘ links. His new Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) become a pillar of the Internet. The term hypertext refers to text stored in electronic form with cross-reference links between pages. HTML is the language for describing how pages of text, graphics and other information are organized, formatted and linked together.

By 1993, almost 100 computers throughout the world were equipped to serve up HTML pages. Those interlinked pages were called the World Wide Web (WWW) and several web browser programs had been written to allow people to view Web pages. One of the programmers to develop a browser was Marc Andreesen who later became rich and famous for his creation of Netscape Navigator (which is now the world’s most popular web browser.)

In short, HTML is everywhere. There are four versions of HTML that have been developed over the years and I will use the 4.0 version to reference in this blog.

Tags | BASIC HTML, HTML 4.0 VERSION, World Wide Web