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HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me


In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.

In my case, the internet was available on just a few machines at my high school—I didn’t have a computer at home, let alone dial-up—but I quickly made myself an amateur expert in navigating the strange new space that Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues had brought into being. Since I didn’t have an email address, he set up a text entry field on his site where I could send him messages, with stern instructions that the textbox was “only for TIM.” He’d post his own responses directly on the website, so I (and theoretically anyone) could read them when I next got access to a machine. I even love editing my own ebooks, turning PDFs into nicely formatted HTML-based EPUB files that never get published to anyone: my own private library of self-contained websites.

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