I failed to find HTML-1 DTD, but I think things are pretty close to what I've described. I've failed to find head or TOC of this document. Interestingly enough, link to HTML-1.0 spec. Minimal HTML document Looking at different HTML tutorials I've found suprising multitude of opinions what should be considered as minimal HTML document. Since I wasn't sure by myself about what is the minimal valid document is, I digged up HTML-2.0 spec and stared at it for a moment.
BODY is a collection of headings text , etc.
Some text without any spark of sense. Useful side effect of the non-breaking space is that latter is not considered by the the browsers as space at all, so it could be used whenever you want to protect words from breaking apart. Today's HTML is ruled by the Lynch Mob of the various WEB browsers. Obviously such HTML is changing from browser to browser. If you have some information that you'd think is really KEWL, use minimal amount of tags.