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  2. HTML - Wikipedia

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    Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

  3. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.

  4. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford [2] and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

  5. History of the web browser - Wikipedia

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    History of the web browser. A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. It further provides for the capture or input of information which may be returned to the presenting system, then stored or processed as necessary. The method of accessing a particular page or ...

  6. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    by Tim Berners-Lee. Organization. CERN. A web page from Wikipedia displayed in Google Chrome. The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1]

  7. Markup language - Wikipedia

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    The markup can be converted programmatically for display into, for example, HTML, PDF or Rich Text Format. A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts. [1] Markup can control the display of a document or enrich its content to facilitate ...

  8. On this day in history, September 16, 1919, Congress grants ...

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    The American Legion, an organization of U.S. war veterans, was issued a federal charter by Congress on this day in history on Sept. 16, 1919, for its continued aid to wounded warriors and military ...

  9. HTML5 - Wikipedia

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    HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language 5) is a markup language used for structuring and presenting hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. It was the fifth and final [4] major HTML version that is now a retired World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation. The current specification is known as the HTML Living Standard.