HTML is the language of the
text files of which most web pages are made.
Even though we see fancy images, fonts, links and layouts when we view pages
in a browser,
a formal computer language is needed to
describe these elements simply. Otherwise, computers would take too long
to understand human markup commands and would make too many mistakes!
To read more about the history of the web try visiting
CERN
or
w3.org
or
a search on "web history", "history of the web", "www 1992".
The acronym HTML in its entirety stands for: Hyper Text Markup Language.
To learn more about how HTML works click
here (next page of HTML tutorial)
to learn more about Hyper Text click here
to learn more about computer languages click here
Copyright 2004, Daniel Heller