(or how to build a webpage) Introduction to HTML (or how to build a webpage)
What we will do tonight A few definitions A little history A demonstration Build Web pages! Get some handouts so we can make better Web pages.
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
Markup vs. Programming Languages Markup languages control how data will appear (text, images) Programming languages specify commands to perform certain actions (add, subtract, get data, etc)
Who invented the Internet? U.S. Department of Defense - 1969
1973 – Invention of TCP/IP protocol. Vint Cerf Bob Kahn TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet).
1989 – My first home computer
Compuserve screen shot – circa 1989
The World Wide Web is Invented Tim Berners-Lee creates HTML and publishes first Web page in 1991
The First Web Page – Created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 Still available at: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
To Reveal HTML Source Code, Press Ctrl + U
The One-Minute Webpage