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Technology Tip Number 178
Why Should I Care About HTML?

This technology tip will offer a little bit on insight into how the internet and World Wide Web works.  When you access a webpage the computer code to tell your computer how to display the page is sent to your computer.  Do you want to see the computer code that was sent to your computer to display this webpage?  Here's how:

Go to "View" in the menu bar and look for "Source"

What appears in a new window is the actual code that created this webpage.  It's called HTML which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and it's origins go back to the European Organization for Nuclear Research
near Geneva, Switzerland (known as CERN).  As a major international research organization CERN was interested in applying computers and the internet to facilitate academic collaboration.   During the 1980's this was the problem a British computer science expert was working on as he developed Hyper Text Markup Language.  By 1990, Tim Berners-Lee's idea had matured to become what he called the World Wide Web.  In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium which sets the international standards and specifications for the World Wide Web.

From the beginning Berners-Lee made his ideas and HTML code freely available without any copyright or royalty restrictions.  This, more than anything else, has made the adoption of the World Wide Web based on HTML such a huge international success.

And that's why you should care about HTML.  It's the backbone of the World Wide Web which is the largest and most recognized part of the Internet.

Would you like to learn more? 
Here's a link to some online HTML Tutorials.

 

PRACTICE ACTIVITY:  Go to a favorite website and try "View" and then "Source" to see the HTML code they used to create their webpage.


 TO KEEP ON LEARNING:  To learn more about Hyper Text Markup Language try searching the internet for:

HTML Tutorials
What is the World Wide Web
HTML Tags

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