HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

For a 10 year old.

Brief Summary Of HTML

In a nutshell HTML is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document. HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages. HTML is what structures and allows, images and other objects to be embedded into the a webpage. HTML is the tool used to create structured documents by the use of semantic tags which organize text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. HTML elements are applied by use of tags, written using Greater than and less than brackets. Throughout it's development tags such as [img] and [input] tags allowed for people to directly introduce content into the page. Browsers do not display the HTML tags, html just tells the browser how to display not what to display.

Time line of HTML

  • 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee came up with the concept of HTML while he was working at CERN. (P.S) The internet was also later invented by him.

  • 1991 - Tim kept his information open to the public, trying his best to spread his work. later in the year the first webmail was created and was later called www-Talk.

  • 1993 - Version 1 of Mosaic Browser was released, this extended features, including images, forms, and lists.

  • 1995 - HTML 2.0 and soon 3.0 was created by T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly.

  • 1998 - Work began on an XML-based equal, named XHTML. This was a reformulation of HTML 4.0 into XHTML 1.0.

  • 2003 - XForm sparked a rebirth in HTML, rather than making an alternitive for it.

  • 2007 - Apple, Mozilla, and Opera allowed for the original company to have the copyright due to him leaving the information public.

  • 1990 - Internet is now a thing and For the start of it, hypertext was being introduced to the Web.


  • 1992 - Joseph Hardin and Dave Thompson caught wind of the innovations and ideas of HTML. IMG tag was introduced as well during.

  • 1994 - HTML 2.0 is being formed and ready for release. HTML was to include everything 1.0 had with new added features.


  • 1997 - HTML 3.2 is completed and released to the public. Later that year, HTML 4.0 is created.

  • 2000 - Basic API for HTML was specified and published under names of DOM Level 1, DOM Level 2 CORE, and DOM Level 2 HTML. These were soon stopped, due to DOM Level 3 causing problems.

  • 2004 - HTML's evolution began testing new innovations for HTML. Soon, Apple, Mozilla, and Opera jointly announced their intent to continue working on the new version HTML 5.1