What Is HTML?

HTML is the "mother tongue" of your browser.To make a long story short, HTML was invented in 1990 by a scientist called Tim Berners-Lee. The purpose was to make it easier for scientists at different universities to gain access to each other's research documents. The project became a bigger success than Tim Berners-Lee had ever imagined. By inventing HTML he laid the foundation for the web as we know it today.

Introduction to HTML

What is needed?

Most likely you already have everything you need.

You have a "browser". A browser is the program that makes it possible to browse and open websites. Right now you are looking at this page in your browser.

It is not important which browser you use. The most common is Microsoft Internet Explorer. But there are others such as Opera and Mozilla Firefox and they can all be used.