HTML is hypertext markup language used to make up the codes of webpage. If you are aware of ISO standard then you might know its launch in 1986. This ISO standard was named as ISO 8879. The creation of this standard was to make displaying the differences unrelated to delivery and representation of documents. This standard detailed language is known as SGML (standard generalized markup language).
Later in 1989, Tim Berners gave the proposal to use the hypertext document system within CERN community. CERN is based in Switzerland and CERN
In 1986, a new ISO standard (ISO 8879) was released which aimed to make platform and display differences irrelevant to the delivery and rendering of documents. This standard detailed the language called the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML.)
Tim Berners-Lee and the Genesis of the WWW
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created a proposal for a hypertext document system to be used within the CERN community. Although based in Switzerland, CERN members were scattered throughout the globe and project turnover was often high. Collaboration over long
The original concept of hypertext was invented by Theodor Holm Nelson, the famous prophet of the "Xanadu" network.(Gilder)
For the source of the concept, Nelson quotes an essay by Vannevar Bush written in 1945 and read to him by his father as a boy: "The human mind...operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain." Expanding this idea from a single human brain to a global mind, Nelson
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