HyperText Markup Language #programming #tutorial
Channel: Dan Cox
Date: 2024-03-25

You are reading a document on a computer.

This document mentions another document.

Many years ago, you needed to close the current document, find the next, and, finally, begin reading again.

What if, instead, you could move much faster? Maybe hyper fast?

This was the idea behind hypertext.

Each document would hold a reference, the location, of another document.

Rather than humans needing to look up each, a computer could find the next one asked for.

In order to make this happen, one more thing was needed: special combinations of symbols — a computer language.

We call this computer language the HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

To better understand this, imagine...