Where did it all start?

Tim Berners-Lee, at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, penned a proposal for a hypertext document system (which he labeled "The Worldwide Web") in October of 1990. Berners-Lee also wrote the first web software, which was a web server package that ran on the NeXT computer, and served text documents.  So with a single paper, Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase "World Wide Web", defined the "engine" to make it work, and created the first web browser.  Not bad for a day«s work at the office!

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the "language" behind web pages.  One of the things which made it so great was the fact that HTML was so simple, almost anyone could write web pages.

This course is a very brief introduction to HTML.  Click on the navigation buttons on the left, and work your way down.  This course is designed to take about four hours.

Enjoy