Shuffling through reputable magazine’s pages of the year-book publications of 1989, one can see that there was barely any mention of the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee and the invention he had made while working at CERN.
An invention that would change the world forever, and it was essentially a system where interconnected documents and multimedia could be accessible via the Internet.
This system was called WWW (World Wide Web) or more simply the Web. With its help, text within files could be linked, rather than simply making the documents available for download.
In order to achieve that, Berners-Lee created his own simple protocol for retrieving other documents’ text via hypertext links. He named it HTTP, which stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language he developed to create and structure the documents he wanted to transfer via HTTP.
So in simple words, HTML was created as the language of the Web. This language was strongly based on SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up Language). SGML was a method for marking up text into basic units, such as paragraphs, headings, and list items, that were recognized globally.
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