by Romain LB (Dec 4, 2004)

HTML language was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher with the CERN since 1989. He announced the creation of the Web officially on Usenet in August 1991. However it is only in 1993 that one considers the state of HTML sufficiently advanced to call it a language. The internet browser used at the time was named NCSA Mosaïc.

HTML, "HyperText Markup Language",  is a language known as "marking" used to formalize the writing of a document with tags  indicating the way in which the document must be presented  and the links it establishes with other documents.

The Web is thus an enormous live file made up of myriads of Web sites proposing Web pages which can contain formatted text, images, sounds, videos, etc.

One calls World Wide Web, noted WWW, or simply Web, the "virtual fabric" formed by the various documents (called for the occasion "Web pages") interdependent with hyperlinks.
The Web is composed of Web pages stored on Web servers, i.e. machines connected to the internet permanently and in charge with providing the required Web pages. Each Web page, and more generally any online resource (image, video, music, animation, etc), is located with a so-called single address URL.
The key element for surfing on the Web pages is the browser, i.e. the software able to question the Web servers, to exploit their results and to put information on pages thanks to the instructions contained in the HTM page. The most important ones are Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Avant Browser.

Now I'm going to give you an example of html code.

First choose a website, for example "You Got The Point".

This is the page as you can see it when you use the browser:

And this is the html code of the page:

It's very difficult to learn the html code but I think it is very interesting. If you want to learn it, you can use different softwares like Frontpage or Scriptedit,  which are very good!

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