HTML was created because scientists wanted to communicate with each other about their research. It was first proposed on March 13, 1989, by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva. There are now 13 different versions of HTML. The original version was introduced in 1992. The next version followed in 1993, with which not only texts but also image files could be opened. HTML+ followed half a year later. The next version, HTML 2.0, was introduced in 1995 with the additional module for form technology. This was followed by versions 3.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 2.0, all of which had small changes and enhancements. HTML 5 is the version currently being used. HTML is an XML-based language. It has tags (or elements) in angle brackets (<>). There are attributes within the brackets. These tags or elements are nested within one another.
, these are paragraph tags. They tell your web browser that everything between the tags is in one paragraph.