tags:: #technology #internet #browsers #markup

- **prev:** [[websites]]
- > ["hypertext markup lotion!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0nuQ5o2DYU) - [[homestar runner]]
- html, or **h**yper**t**ext **m**arkup **l**anguage, is the language that [[websites]] are written in.
	- you can [view the source]([[view source]]) of any page in your browser
- html was first developed 30 years ago at CERN by [Tim Berners-Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee) as an [[internet]] based [[hypertext]] system. Tim envisioned many areas in which hypertext could be used, like encyclopedias! (see: [[wikipedia]])
- ## resources
	- the [mdn web docs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML)
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