HTML

(Longman, 1998)

References

Learning HTML for Kids. (1999-2004). Retrieved from What is HTML anyway: http://www.goodellgroup.com/tutorial/chapter1.html

Longman, A. W. (1998). A history of HTML. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html

Shannon, R. (2000-2015). HTML Source. Retrieved from What is HTML: http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/whatishtml.html

Hanna Kim

Course: CSIT­100

Due date: 01/29/2015

HTML: A fun programming language

What is HTML? This is a short article that I will start to discuss and further share with my fellow classmates what it stands for and how it works. It is simply an amazing topic to discuss because people don’t realize how often it is used in our everyday lives as well as how simple it is to learn. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. While using my first reference from an online source, I found out that it was “Developed by scientist Tim Berners­Lee in 1990, HTML is the “hidden” code that helps us communicate with others on the World Wide Web (www)”. HTML consists of codes that people can navigate through and research for whatever they desire. Tags are also involved in HTMLs in order to help navigate through the website. If the tags aren’t put into the codes, it will not allow people to navigate back and forth within the website to find more information. As we continue with this topic, we will realize that without HTMLs in our society, things would be a lot harder to research for instance for anything because one would have to go to a bookstore or a library to do any sort of research.

To better understand where these codes started, HTML was brought up roughly seven years ago and ever since then, it expanded and evolved to where it became more and more simple for people to use and understand compared to just experts knowing how to read and understand the codes used. “Hypertext” was established in 1940s but Bill Atkinson was he who came up with an application called “HyperCard” in 1980s where it enabled us to construct a series of on­screen ‘filing cards’ that contained textual and graphical information.

In our day today, things are being used without knowing anything about the history and how it was started to be used. If anyone was to be seated and asked to explain what HTML is and what it is stand for, I’m sure there would be a lot of people that won’t pass. HTML plays a huge role in society today. Our society today is all about the internet whether it’s with watching a movie on the web or just simply doing a quick research for a school paper. It is pretty amazing to find out what HTML is based on because we use it in our everyday lives.

When I first realized what HTML was and how big of a role it played in my life, I was shocked. Just the simple fact that all these codes are used to put together a very simple website such as Google is phenomenal. Who would guess that the simplest website would consist of so many codes? To make things even more interesting, let’s take face book for an example; how many codes do you think it takes to make face book? Look at all the details that take to make the opening page of face book. You can click from places to places on the website to navigate to the next page for more information about that certain topic.

No one can fully finalize the topic and the history of where HTML started or the continuation of it, it is furthermore an interesting topic to share with people among us. When reading the title of this article, people would wonder, “Why is it a fun programming language”? It’s completely understood when people wonder about this title without fully understanding HTML and its history because like mentioned before, we don’t realize that it actually plays a huge role in our lives. When you sit down and see how HTML is used, it gets interesting and also fun to use them at the end of it all.