Links for today’s class (which will be intros, what we’re doing this semester, a bit about this HTML stuff and where it comes from and the basic HTML tags): w3.org, example of SGML-tagged text, brief history of markup formats, w3’s brief history of web, old web browser emulator, CSS Zen Garden, Lynx emulator, last year’s blog for the course, some of the student projects.


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  1. Michael

    Hi Jill,
    my students (Internet Technologies) always enjoy this story on the roots of markup languages,

    http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm

    Michael

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