HTML as a language

[Aleta Karstad]

Jan Bosselaers wrote:
>
>>> Maybe it's semantics, but tell me what HTML stands for & I'll rest my
>>>  case.
>
> > I do not know what HTML stands for
>
> HTML stands for "Hypertext Markup Language" I must humbly admit that I
> do not know what "Markup" stands for.

* It means that you're 'marking up' the text with codes that control the
appearance of the text and its relationship (links) to other texts.

or so I suppose,

fred schueler.                                           Y
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