HTML Essay

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Have you ever wanted to create your own webpage to show out your business, hobbies or just yourself? Well in order to make a webpage, you need to have knowledge on HyperText Markup Language, or HTML for short. It is a text code that makes visible the information the user wants to put onto a web page. I’m going to explain the concept and development, the process, and the impact it has on today’s world. But to start off the bottom picture is an example of what HTML appears now. HTML was developed in the 1980’s by Tim Berners-Lee as simply a system to share documents within his company at CERN. He then came up with the idea of a hypertext, a text shown on a computer screen or any type of electronic device, on the internet to simplify things more. HTML was then officially made in the early 1990s. At the time Berners considered it to be an application of SGML which stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language and was defined as that in 1993 by the Internet Engineering Task Force. When released, it was publicly known as HTML Tags. It contained almost 20 elements that were in the origi...

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