This week we are going to start by learning basic HTML.

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) was initially created to show more than text on pages viewed on the internet.

HTML was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991.

photo of Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Here is a link to his personal web page

Berners-Lee’s innovation was intended to help scientists share data across a then new platform called the Internet, a version of which the U.S. government had been using since the 1960s.

The big invention he came up with initially was the hyperlink. The hyperlink links to other web pages, videos, music, photos, file and documents like a Word Document. Besides the hyperlink HTML uses basic tags that help show images, bold text and change the background color of a webpage.