1. (or how to build a webpage)
Introduction to HTML
(or how to build a webpage)

2. 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.

3. HTML
Hyper
Text
Markup
Language

4. 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)

5. Who invented the Internet?
U.S. Department of Defense

7. 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).

8. 1989 – My first home computer

9. Compuserve screen shot – circa 1989

10. The World Wide Web is Invented
Tim Berners-Lee creates HTML and publishes first Web page in 1991

11. The First Web Page – Created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991
Still available at:

13. To Reveal HTML Source Code, Press Ctrl + U

15. The One-Minute Webpage