HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a modern standard markup language that uses common abbreviations called “tags” to indicate to the web browser how the author would like to have sections of a web page laid out .

It was first devised in 1989 by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland (the European organization for nuclear research) to share all computer-stored information between the CERN physicists .

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McCain, Roger A. (2010), Roger McCain's Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy (Revised ed.), ISBN 9789814289658