History of the Web
During this week’s lecture, we took our first look at HTML. We began the lecture with a brief history of the internet and the World Wide Web. We took a look at the very first website, which can be found here. It was really interesting to see the difference between the very first website and what we know to be websites today, and how much things have changed in the last 30 years or so. The web was created by a man named Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who was a computer scientist from London. In 1990, he wrote the three fundamental technologies that still remain the foundations for today’s web, and included within that was HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
Foundations of HTML
We were taught the basic foundations of HTML, starting off with what elements can be used in the <head> of a document. These include:
- <title>
- <base>
- <link>
- <style>
- <meta>
- <script>
- <noscript>
- <template>
HTML Exercises
We were tasked with applying HTML to a piece of text, in order to demonstrate what we have learned in the language so far. The exercise was a piece of a text titled, ‘John Baskerville.’ We went through the piece of text and added HTML elements along the way.
I uploaded this to my GitHub account, which can be found here.
I also made a separate blog post, where I wrote about my process for the History of Type markup exercise.