Write a short note on history and evaluation of HTML.
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History of HTML :
A Hypertext Markup Language was originally designed and developed in 1989 by researcher named Tim Berners Lee at CERN the European Physical Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN researcher Angina developed the first world wide web program in 1990 and began releasing programs to Internet users in 1991.
This HTML is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). This SGML was developed at IBM (International Business Machine) in 1986 to define markup language.
Now a days HTML has become very popular with its mechanisms for style sheets, scripting, frames, embedding objects, support of various directions to text, tables, frames.
Answer: HTML stands for “HyperText Markup Language” and is the standard language used to produce web pages and applications.
HTML was first presented by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, in 1989. Berners-Lee originally created the Web to allow physicists to collaborate and share their work with each other. Unbeknownst to him at this time, the Web would become one of the biggest tools in which people use to share information.
“This is a surprising place indeed for the beginnings of a technology which would, eventually, deliver everything from tourist information, online shopping and advertisements, financial data, weather forecasts and much more to your personal computer.”
HTML 1.0
HTML 1.0 was the first version of HTML, used from 1989 to 1994. It was a very limited version and included only 20 elements. There wasn’t much that could be done with it and therefore most webpages ended up looking very similar due to the inability to do things such as; alter the page background, determine fonts and use tables and forms.