Lancaster,
Damali
Course:
CSIT-100
Homework #1
HTML: A fun Programming Language
Technology. Something that has made
the world that we live in today a better place in many different ways. With the
advancement of technology, there are many things that people in society are
capable of doing that was never imaginable before. Ove the last three decades,
we have had the privilege to see something beautiful created and it has become
something that we all use every single day. That beautiful thing is the
Internet. The Internet is something that all people have their minds wrapped
around because we have to use it, whether it be an email, search engine, or to
communicate with others on our favorite social media sites. The Internet has
become so popular today that children in elementary schools are being taught
all of their work on the computer and are being trained in how to use the
Internet regularly so that they can fit into society without being behind when
they get older. There is going to come a time where everything is completely
paperless and we see that transition happening more and more on a daily basis
especially when schools are given iPads for the students and when the rate of
online classes are growing rapidly as well. Although the growth and the use of
the Internet is at a very high rate, many people are not aware of how the
Internet actually functions and what makes websites visible the way that they
are.
In
order for people to browse their favorite sites, the creators or publishers of
websites, create HTML documents. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML
is the standard markup language used when creating web pages. This language is
written in the form of HTML elements and these elements form the building
blocks of all websites. In some cases, cites on the Internet actually end with
“.html” and it shows that the creation of the website is from using Hyper Text
Markup Language. HTML is what allows a website to look the way that it does. Whenever
we are on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple’s Safari, we are using these
web browsers so that we can properly read the various HTML files that are out
in the world. The first HTML prototype ever, was written by Tim Berners-Lee.
Berners-Lee was an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the
World Wide Web. The first website was built at CERN, the European Organization
for Nuclear Research, and was put online August 6th 1991. The website that was
created was very generic, as expected, and it explained what the World Wide Web
was. Since 1991, there have been many versions of HTML as a result of
continuous work and progress. In 1995 there was HTML 2.0, 1997 was the year of
HTML 3.2, 1999 had HTML 4.01, 2000 introduced XHTML, and in 2012 the world
adopted HTML 5.
With
the advances and changes in technology, the amount of things that people can do
involving the creation of websites have changed as well. Back then, there
weren’t any interactive sites or websites that had videos embedded in them. In
today’s society, the possibilities are endless as to what one is able to do on
a website. From allowing customizations of social cites, to embedding moving
backgrounds and more, there is a plethora of different things that a person can
do. Additionally, it is a lot easier for anyone to create their own website
today. When the Internet was first introduced, it was very expensive for a
service that took a very long time. Many people did not use the Internet due to
the dial-up speeds and they may not have had the funds to do so. In current
times, however, any and everybody can use the Internet whenever they connect to
Wi-Fi or use 4G coverage. As a result of that, more and more people are prone
to knowing how to create websites and because of an increasingly growing rate
of e-commerce, more business want web designers, so that they are able to
effectively market their products where everyone spends the most of their time.
To
conclude, HTML is a very important part of our everyday lives whether people
are aware of it or not. It is the reason that we have some information to see
whenever we are browsing the Internet. Granted, HTML is not the reason why a
website functions a certain way, but there would not be any actions happening
on a webpage without the HTML being created to give the visual. Being as though
there were multiple versions, as I mentioned earlier, I see new ones being
created very soon. With the way technology is progressing, I do believe that
there will be a time where things on the Internet are displayed in a hologram
or interactive form which will call for a completely new makeup of the HTML
coding that is behind a webpage. It shall be very interesting to see what the
computer and technology experts come up with next to shock and awe all of us in
moving the world of technology even farther like what we have seen from movies
like iRobot or Ironman.
