HTML Explained in 1 minute

Before I explain HTML I want to begin by restating a couple of points I made in a previous article.

Originally, the web did not have any interactive behavior and was essentially just displaying text files across a network via computer network protocols such as FTP.
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Eventually, the web expanded with newer protocols such as DNS, HTTP and with HTML the web became accessible to the middle class for the first time with the introduction of the Personal Computer and web browsers.

You can read more about that later if you want.

A Brief History of JavaScript

Now, why is that relevant?

Well, it’s important because HTML was essentially just a way for academics to send documents to each other through and cite them more easily by using hypertext.

What is HTML?
Stands for HyperText Markup Language and contrary to what you may read on twitter, it is NOT a programming language. The last two letters tell you that much about the language. The first two letters, go back to that history I’m briefly alluding too.

Explaining HTML

HTML isn’t rocket science, it’s just a document.
CSS isn’t hard either, its just a language we use to present the…