Origins
The Web experience, as we know it, was officially born when Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (le Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva designed HTML to allow people in the physics community to communicate with each other. In December 1990, HTML was released within CERN, and it became available to the public in the summer of 1991. In the grand tradition of Internet share-and-enjoy, CERN and Berners-Lee gave away the specifications for HTML, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and uniform resource locators (URLs).
Berners-Lee based HTML on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Like XML, SGML is a meta-language and can be used to define other languages. Each language that's ...
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