HTML — The Language That Built the Web
Introduction — a simple idea that changed everything HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the skeleton of the World Wide Web. It is the standardized language used to structure documents on the internet: headings, paragraphs, lists, links, images, forms, and the hooks that let browsers render pages and applications. It’s deceptively simple on the surface — angle-bracketed tags arranged in a tree — yet HTML’s role is foundational. Without it, the web as we know it would not exist. When and who created HTML? Creator: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist at CERN. When: The idea was proposed in 1989 ; the first working system (including the first HTML) was implemented in 1990–1991 . Where: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee conceived HTML as part of a larger system — the World Wide Web — to solve a practical problem: scientists at different institutions needed a simple, universal way to share documents, references and data ...
