who created html

[wkas]

I have a question
who created html language and how "hypertext" name was given to it ??

[gnarly]

It was created (I think) by Tim Berners-Lee. The Hypertext bit is because it is a text markup-language that allows you to hyper-link between pages.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/historical

[wkas]

Thanks

[DaveWoods]

There's also plenty of information about this on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

[wkas]

Thanks again