HTML

HTML

1. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language

   • HTML is the standard markup language for crating web pages
     • Web Browsers
       • WWW stands for World Wide Website
         • The world wide web is not the internet.
         • The internet is a global network of computers
           • However the world wide web is an application that runs the internet.
             • In 1989 the world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments. Hypertext and the internet already existed at this point but no one had thought of a way to use the internet to link one document directly to another.
         • Tim suggested three main technologies that meant all computers could understand each other (HTML, URL and HTTP). All of these remain in use today. He also made the world’s first web browser and web server. You can still see pages from the first web server online.
       • The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge,Firefox,Safari,etc) is read HTML documents and display them