HTML And how it came to be

Introduction

HTML is a coding language used worldwide It was made by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 it was the first version of it was made by him Tim Berners-Lee also invented the World wide web.

HTML is also the standard markup language for documents made to be displayed in a web browser. It can be supported by technologies such as CSS and scripting languages, for example, JavaScript.

Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML explained the structure of a web page semantically and originally included hints for the look of the document.

HTML elements are the thing that made up it without them HTML code will display a blank page. The key elements of HTML are the ones most commonly used by developers.

Where do we use it?

There are many places where it's specified to code HTML Like Codepen, JsFiddle, and Glitch. We commonly see it in Google dev tools or inspect the inspect brings up a who bunch of HTML that was used to make the webpage.

The HTML in the browser Dev Tools is not exactly the code used to make the website unless HTML was used to make the website.

More info

HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages. CSS can also be paired with HMTL.

History

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990. That year, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau collaborated on a joint request for funding, but the project was not formally adopted by CERN. In his personal notes from 1990, he listed "some of the many areas in which hypertext is used" and put an encyclopedia first.

The first openly available description of HTML was a document called HTML Tags, first mentioned on the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991. It describes 18 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of HTML. Except for the hyperlink tag, these were strongly influenced by SGMLguid, an in-house Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)-based documentation format at CERN. Eleven of these elements still exist in HTML 4.

HTML is a markup language that web browsers use to interpret and compose text, images, and other material into visual or audible web pages. Default characteristics for every item of HTML markup are defined in the browser, and these characteristics can be altered or enhanced by the web page designer's additional use of CSS. Many of the text elements are found in the 1988 ISO technical report TR 9537 Techniques for using SGML, which in turn covers the features of early text formatting languages such as that used by the RUNOFF command developed in the early 1960s for the CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System) operating system: these formatting commands were derived from the commands used by typesetters to manually format documents. However, the SGML concept of generalized markup is based on elements (nested annotated ranges with attributes) rather than merely print effects, with also the separation of structure and markup; HTML has been progressively moved in this direction with CSS.

Quotes

Tim Berners-Lee/Quotes

You affect the world by what you browse.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Conclusion

HTML is a coding language used worldwide It was made by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 Tim Berners-Lee also invented the World wide web.