HTML Applications
Most Internet applications you use every day—such as your favorite news page, the search engine that helps you find what you’re looking for, or the online banking application that tells you how much money is in your account—were built to present information in a format that was invented in the early 1990s.
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML in 1991. He originally designed HTML to present linked information on a computer network in a form suitable for human viewing. When the first web was established at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, the server ran on a NeXT machine, and a simple browser program allowed the web pages to be accessed from a variety of platforms.
HTML has since become the language for presenting information ...
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