How were websites created?

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Websites were first created by scientists/researchers to communicate reports to each other over a network of computers (Internet). By developing a simple programming language (HTML) text documents could be formatted to appear in an application (forerunner to Modern Web Browser) that could run on any PC/Computer.

So basically early web documents were pages of formatted text (eg pages that said this text should be Bold, Red, Italic, etc) that could be opened in an application that understood the formatting and displayed the text.

Simple stuff, however the impact of displaying text from one computer on another computer soon took off and websites evolved from simple text documents to contain images, sound and other multi-media. (Including E-Commerce Sites, Online Shopping and Applications that now run in Web Browsers.)

Now virtually every business has a Website and lots of independent professionals, semi-professionals and amateurs run websites. They are still largely created by coding HTML (although the HTML has many more formatting commands than the original language) - although other coding languages that compliment or do some of the task previously undertaken by HTML are becoming more important.

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