HTML markup language
HTML, lenguaje de marcado de hipertexto
- Date
- 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Tim Berners-Lee (CERN); standardised by the IETF and the W3C
- People
- 👤 Tim Berners-Lee1955–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Simple tag-based language for structuring documents with links, derived from SGML. Its ease of use meant that anyone could publish on the web.
What it led to
- Mass publishing without intermediaries and blogs
- Web standards (CSS, JavaScript, HTML5) and browser-based applications
- Web design as a profession
Built on
- World Wide Web1989-1991
- SGML
- hypertext
Made possible
- Mosaic graphical web browser1993
- web browsers
- CSS
- blogs
- web applications