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Introduction

HTML is the language used to describe how a document will look as a page on the web. It stands for Hypertext Markup Language.

Hypertext is the association of one web document to another through linking. We will get into how you link pages together later in this tutorial.

A markup language describes how a document is displayed within a medium. In this case, the medium is a web browser. Other programs, such as Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word have their own unique markup languages.

HTML Background

HTML was first conceptualized in the early 1980s. In the late 80s and early 90s, the first versions of HTML showed up. HTML didn’t become common use until the web became popular in the mid 1990s. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created to standardize HTML and other languages for the web.

Basic HTML Example

<html>
  <head>
  <title>Page Title Goes Here</title>
</head>
<body>
  This is where the main content goes.
</body>
</html>

The components which make up the HTML example presented above will be explained later in this tutorial.

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