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Digression: HTML

Although it is not "core" knowledge in this unit, we really need to mention HTML.
 
HTML is an example of a markup language -- documents are (in general) plain ASCII textfiles, with certain characters/symbols reserved to denote markup. Such languages have a long and venerable history in computing (eg starting with *roff, TeX, (see also here), LaTeX, SGML and subsequently XML.
 

 
If you're interested to see some very simple hand-crafted HTML, have a look at the document source for these lecture notes...
 
Lecture 05: Applications #3.1: HTML and HTTP Basics Copyright © 2005 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo.


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