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The Bone Structure of HTML
You may not believe me when I tell you, I fell in love with coding because of HTML and CSS! Weird right? They aren’t even languages, like the infamous JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or Java. HTML stands for “Hyper Text Markup Language” and CSS stands for “Cascading Style-Sheets”, which in normal people talk means that HTML is the bones, blood & veins, and structure of creating a website, while CSS is the hair, skin, and nails of it. With the power of the two, a beginner like myself was able to explore a snippet of the visual magic that coding can display!
As I mentioned, HTML is like the bone structure of creating a website! HTML was written in 1993 by Tim Berners-Lee, a contractor at CERN, (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
“The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called “HTML Tags”, first mentioned on the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991.It describes 18 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of HTML. Except for the hyperlink tag, these were strongly influenced by SGMLguid, an in-house Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)-based documentation format at CERN. Eleven of these elements still exist in HTML 4.”
