HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective Web pages

Chapter 1. INTRODUCING HTML AND XHTML

Introducing HTML

Less than twenty years after its invention, the World Wide Web has become ubiquitous. Today, there are tens of billions of Web sites worldwide, and the number continues to grow at an almost exponential rate. There are many factors that have contributed to the growth of the Web, but one of the most important is that Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are written, is easy to learn, and best of all, free.

History of HTML

The World Wide Web was invented in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee worked at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, and at the time, no one operating system had come to dominate the market. Therefore, the visiting scientists ...