garden/pages/html.md

tags:: #technology #internet #browsers #markup

• prev: websites

• "hypertext markup lotion!" - homestar runner

• html, or hypertext markup language, 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 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
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