Week 5
Brief History of HTML and the Web.
It all starts with a remarkable gentleman by the name of Tim Bernes-Lee. In 1989 old mate Timmy invents the web with HTML as its publishing language at CERN(“Laboratory for Particle physics in Geneva”).
1990 Timmy’s Prototype web browser on the NeXTCube a.k.a “The Cube”(Upgraded Model of NeXT). NeXT is a workstation computer that was launched at an invitation only event in 1988, in 1989 the popular tech magazine Byte listed the NeXT computer among the “Excellence” winners of the byte awards.
1991 The internet is abuzz with Discussion about HTML, Timmy starts the WWW-mailing list for electronic enthusiast to discuss and share ideas and thoughts.
1994 a world wide web conference is held in Geneva the birthplace of HTML. Dave Ragget presented a concept which he labeled HTML+, a unanimous decision was made to move forward with the development of HTML+ which eventually led to HTML 3’s birth. Some other interesting facts about this time period is the W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) was formed on 1 October 1994 22 years ago!! where does the time go?
1995 Davey takes his innovative new ideas for HTML and writes up a draft explaining them all, the HTML 3 documentation was received well but had issues getting licensed by the ITEF. This year also spurred the release of the Dreaded Internet Explorer! A browser most of us hold in contempt, back in these days though it would have been pretty mind blowing. IE was eventually in close competition with Netscape, It also evolved a lot of it’s own HTML features.
(You get the point, lets jump in a time machine and fast forward a little bit.)
2014 A glorious year! The fifth and current major version of HTML is published by W3C(World Wide Web Consortium). The intent was to improve the language with support for the industry standard multimedia options, HTML 5 offers many new syntactic features to natively handle and include multimedia and graphical content. Support for scalable vector graphics was added. Some of the new structures and elements HTML 5 offers include tags like<video> <canvas> <audio> etc. I could go into detail about some of the new API’s but this is meant to be a brief summary so i will leave it at that(Google is your friend unfortunate soul reading this awful blog post!)
2017 What a crazy year we live in.The truth is my 12 year old niece with a bit of time on her hands could learn Web Development, it has never been easier. Nowadays you can dive right in and start producing your own content from the moment you hear the words HTML for the first time. There is so much user friendly software available to you in your learning period, suffice to say you will learn a lot and be potentially capable of many creative things. That is of course if you put the time, effort and brain power into learning it.
I might cover more of this at a later period but i think that is enough for now.If you don’t want to want to shoot yourself in the face yet feel free to read on.
Development Tools.
I will mostly be following the industry standard in this regard. Image editor wise i will probably end up using expression encoder and gimp for anything graphically orientated. I have had a look at some of the other text editors, but i have used a lot of Notepad ++ in the past and will probably keep using that to write my code. Notepad ++’s best quality is it functions a bit like a compact visual studio, in the sense that you can select the language you are using and syntax features specifically for that language will then be available to you. For content management i will probably use something like Filezilla to quickly organize my VPN.
Development Environment.
Development Environment wise I use a 200GB portable SSD named “Work Space” this drive contains all my tools gimp,photoshop, expression encoder, bootstrap, filezilla etc. I have a VPN,DNS and a Free Host(000.webhost) that i use sometimes to check the browser compatibility of Games i develop in Unity.
(I cheesed out here a bit at the end, since i have spent far too much time on this blog post already)
Thanks for reading lads and ladettes, see you again next week!
