HTML. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), it isnt a programming language; it is a markup language, which uses markup tags to make webpages. HTML tags(mark up tags), are keywords surrounded by angle brackets

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How it Began

In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist who was a independent contractor at CERN(the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland), proposed and then made a prototype of ENQUIRE which was a system that researchers at CERN could use in order to use and share documents.

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee (who was working in a computing services section of CERN), Tim had the idea of enabling researchers from remote sites in the world to organize and put together information. But far from simply making available a large number of research documents as files that could be downloaded to individual computers; he suggested that you could actually link the text in the files themselves. A systems engineer at CERN, Robert Caillian and Tim, submitted separate proposals for an internet based hypertext system providing similar results. The following year they worked together on a joint proposal, the Worldwide Web project which was then accepted by CERN. Tim's prototype Web browser on the NeXT computer came out in 1990.

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How it Works

HTML markup consists of several key components, including elements (and their attributes), character-based data types, and character references and entity references. Another important component is the document type declaration, which specifies the Document Type Definition.

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), it isn’t a programming language; it is a markup language, which uses markup tags to make webpages. HTML tags(mark up tags), are keywords surrounded by angle brackets for example <html>, HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>

The first tag in a pair is the “start tag”(opening tag), the second tag is the ...

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