Vannevar Bush first proposed the basics of hypertext in 1945. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators) in 1990. Tim Berners-Lee was the primary author of html, assisted by his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Screen Shot of Tim Berners-Lee's Browser Editor as Developed in 1991-92
This was a true browser editor for the first version of HTML and ran on a NeXt workstation. Implemented in Objective-C, it, made it easy to create, view and edit web documents.

Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, defining HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). He is currently the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the group that sets technical standards for the Web. Biographies on Berners-Lee and articles/books written by Berners-Lee.

Hypertext
Vannevar Bush first proposed the basics of hypertext in 1945.

Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush, the inventor credited with the principles underlying modern hypertext research, was born on March 11, 1890 in Everett, Massachusetts.

HyperText Markup Language
This is W3C's home page for HTML. Here you will find pointers to specifications for HTML and guidelines on how to use HTML.

The First Version of HTML
This is the description of a very early version of HTML. This text dates from 1992.

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Internet - WWW
From the Internet's conception in the early '60s and ARPANET. The contributions of  Vinton Cerf, Bob Kahn, Tim Berners-Lee and Mark Andreesen. The World Wide Web's birth in 1991.
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Learn HTML or XML
Guide Jennifer Kyrnin helps you learn the creative coding language Webmasters use to publish professional pages online.

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