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Practical Web Design
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Practical Web Design

by Philippe Hong
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
7h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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The first ever website

The first ever website was created by a scientist named Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He was a British computer scientist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It was basically a text-based website with a few links. A copy of the original page from 1992 still exists online. It simply existed to serve and tell people what the World Wide Web (WWW) was:

Most websites to follow were pretty much the same. There were entirely text-based with simple HTML markup:

  • <h1> for titles
  • <p> for paragraphs
  • <a> for links (we will go through all this markup in our HTML course)

The following version of HTML further allowed ...

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