Friday, 3 January 2014

Tutorial 2: What is HTML?

There are different variety of people in the world and all understand and speak different languages.So, in the same way your browser understand the language called HTML. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. 

HTML is the "mother tongue" of your browser.
If we go into detail then....HTML was invented in 1990 by a scientist called Tim Berners-Lee. The purpose was to make it easier for scientists at different universities to gain access to each other's research documents. The project became a bigger success than Tim Berners-Lee had ever imagined. By inventing HTML he laid the foundation for the web as we know it today.

HTML is a language, which makes it possible to present information (e.g. scientific research) on the Internet. What you see when you view a page on the Internet is your browser's interpretation of HTML. To see the HTML code of a page on the Internet, simply click "View" in the top menu of your browser and choose "Source".



For those who dont know HTML at all, HTML code looks complicated but this tutorial will help you make sense of it all.

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