Chapter 1. A Brief History Of Markup
HTML IS THE unifying language of the World Wide Web. Using just the simple tags it contains, the human race has created an astoundingly diverse network of hyperlinked documents, from Amazon, eBay, and Wikipedia, to personal blogs and websites dedicated to cats that look like Hitler.
HTML5 is the latest iteration of this lingua franca. While it is the most ambitious change to our common tongue, this isn’t the first time that HTML has been updated. The language has been evolving from the start.
As with the web itself, the HyperText Markup Language was the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In 1991, he wrote ...
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