HOW html started?
Turns out a guy who was working at a physics lab started it.
Something called SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) was popularly used by researchers to format their documents quickly with simple document hierarchy like paragraphs, headings and lists. Let us see some example of SGML (borrowed from wikipedia):
Something called SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) was popularly used by researchers to format their documents quickly with simple document hierarchy like paragraphs, headings and lists. Let us see some example of SGML (borrowed from wikipedia):
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In such a way of having tags and attributes, SGML was very similar to HTML (which did not even exist at that time). But there were some problems with SGML that made the use of it quite troublesome (that I could quote from edx):
SGML's specification was very open and this allowed different labs to be creative in how they used the language. This did, in turn, cause various incompatibilities with different labs as they all may have different interpretations of the same markup.
SGML also was missing a feature that would become key to HTML. Documents created using SGML did not have a standardized way of referencing other documents. When Tim Berners-Lee created the HTML language, he extended SGML by adding more annotations and adding the ability for documents to reference each other.