In1990 a huge breakthrough in the computer world helped technology become what it is today. This breakthrough is known as HTML. HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language and is known today as the official language of the World Wide Web. “It was originally created to allow those who were not specialized in SGML (standard generalized markup language) to publish and exchange scientific and other technical documents” (WWW.Ironspider.ca).
Not long after HTML was created, companies started to use the language to create browsers. It wasn’t until 1995 when the first companies started to really utilize these browsers. The two main rivals were Netscape and Internet Explorer. And because these two companies were rivals, each one would constantly try to find some way to improve their browser to be better than their competitor. The result was phenomenal. Because of this, HTML is constantly changing for the better. It has become faster, easier, and much more in depth than most could have imagined. The only problem is that each huge competitor began to make temporary HTML for their browsers which you could not use on any competitors. This made things difficult. People found that their web page would look good in one browser but not in another. So in order to have a web page look good in all the browsers, it would take a lot of time and effort.
Over time, many people realized that learning HTML is not as hard as it seems. This created some problems. As the World Wide Web kept becoming bigger and bigger, eventually people began to get lazy and use what you could call “slang” HTML. As with anything else, somebody will eventually come along and try to make it easier by creating shortcuts. These shortcuts begin to ruin the language by leaving little things out. The more shortcuts that are made the more junk web pages are put out. This creates the internet and the web pages you are trying to view to respond slower. In a perfect internet with perfect browsers and no shortcut junk HTML, anybody would be able to view anything on the internet on a small browser instantly. But this is simply not practical. People will always try to find an easy way out.
Not long after HTML was created, companies started to use the language to create browsers. It wasn’t until 1995 when the first companies started to really utilize these browsers. The two main rivals were Netscape and Internet Explorer. And because these two companies were rivals, each one would constantly try to find some way to improve their browser to be better than their competitor. The result was phenomenal. Because of this, HTML is constantly changing for the better. It has become faster, easier, and much more in depth than most could have imagined. The only problem is that each huge competitor began to make temporary HTML for their browsers which you could not use on any competitors. This made things difficult. People found that their web page would look good in one browser but not in another. So in order to have a web page look good in all the browsers, it would take a lot of time and effort.
Over time, many people realized that learning HTML is not as hard as it seems. This created some problems. As the World Wide Web kept becoming bigger and bigger, eventually people began to get lazy and use what you could call “slang” HTML. As with anything else, somebody will eventually come along and try to make it easier by creating shortcuts. These shortcuts begin to ruin the language by leaving little things out. The more shortcuts that are made the more junk web pages are put out. This creates the internet and the web pages you are trying to view to respond slower. In a perfect internet with perfect browsers and no shortcut junk HTML, anybody would be able to view anything on the internet on a small browser instantly. But this is simply not practical. People will always try to find an easy way out.
