Introduction to HTML and History

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers the definition, key features, historical timeline, and common editors associated with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

HTML

Shorthand for Hypertext Markup Language, it is the standard language of Web pages that tells a browser how to display elements using tags and elements.

Tim Berners-Lee

A computer consultant at a nuclear physics lab in Switzerland who developed HTML in the late 1980s.

Hypertext

An early program developed by Tim Berners-Lee that allowed a reader to connect, or 'link,' one document to another through a network.

.html

The file extension that tells a computer to open a file in an internet browser such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari.

Platform-independent

A feature of HTML meaning it is supported by all modern browsers regardless of the operating system.

HTML 1

Released in 1993, this basic version was used to share scientific documents and supported simple text formatting and hyperlinks.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

The organization that released HTML 2.0 in 1995 to standardize HTML for web browsers and introduce forms.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The organization responsible for releasing HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01, and HTML5.

HTML 3.2

Released in 1997, it added support for tables, text flow around images, and scripting (JavaScript).

HTML 4.01

Released in 1999, it introduced Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) integration and promoted the separation of structure and style.

HTML5

Released in 2014 through a collaboration between W3C and WHATWG, it added multimedia elements like

Semantic tags

HTML5 elements like

,

,

, and

used to define the structure and meaning of web content.

Notepad

A simple text editor that can be used to write HTML.

Sublime Text Editor

A cross-platform code editor tool that supports all markup languages and is used as an editor for HTML.

Visual Studio

One of the most popular code editors of today's generation used for development.