The term web design implies the great range of activities such as web site planning, web site creation, web site modeling, wed site designing, web site coding and programming and professional arrangement of the pages which make up a user-friendly and easy-to-use site.
The history of the internet starts in the late 1960s. First it was strictly used for US military purposes. Later some universities started using it. Generalized Markup Language is the predecessor to SGML. GML was developed by IBM in efforts led by Charles Goldfarb.
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