A short history of the web
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Where the web came from
- The web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
- He worked at CERN, a big science lab in Europe.
- He wanted scientists to share documents easily.
The first web page
- The first web page went online in 1991.
- It was simple — just text and links you could click.
- You open a web page in a program called a browser (like Chrome or Safari).
HTML is the language
- Web pages are written in HTML.
- HTML means HyperText Markup Language — a long name for a simple idea.
- You mark parts of your text ("this is a heading", "this is a link") and the browser draws them.
The web today
- Today there are billions of web pages.
- They still use HTML for the structure and CSS for the style.
- Those two are exactly what you will learn here — starting from nothing.