Wherefore XML: A Whimsical Look at the History of Markup Languages
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~13.8 billion years ago
Where the heck are
we?
Not Goldfarb
ML
Goldfarbrehso
eiro
eneralizedarkupanguage
:h1.Chapter 1: Introduction
:p.GML supported hierarchical containers, such as
:ol:li.Ordered lists (like this one),:li.Unordered lists, and:li.Definition lists:eol.
as well as simple structures.
:p.Markup minimization (later generalized and formalized in SGML), allowed the end-tags to be omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements.
MarkupLanguage
Generalized^Standard
What hasforty legs…
…and a powerful
byte?
The World Wide Web is precisely what we
were trying to PREVENT.
Rememberme?
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free!
Can’tcatch me!
World’s First
Web Page
You can keep your new-fangled
“inter-web” out of my SGML, thank you very much.
C.2 Editorial Review BoardThis specification was prepared and approved for publication by the W3C SGML Editorial Review Board (ERB). ERB approval of this specification does not necessarily imply that all ERB members voted for its approval. At the time it approved this specification, the SGML ERB had the following members:
1. Jon Bosak, Sun ([email protected]), chair2. Tim Bray, Textuality ([email protected]), editor3. James Clark ([email protected]), technical lead4. Dan Connolly ([email protected]), W3C contact5. Steve DeRose, EBT ([email protected])6. Dave Hollander, HP ([email protected])7. Eliot Kimber, Passage Systems ([email protected])8. Tom Magliery, NCSA ([email protected])9. Eve Maler, ArborText ([email protected])10. Jean Paoli, Microsoft ([email protected])11. Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad ([email protected])12. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, U. of Ill. at Chicago ([email protected]), editor
They’re not showing proper
respect, Don.
<BLINK>
I’m the King of
the Web!
Nice tags!