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🗿 Why Humans Invented HTML - Learning Frontend Deeply - Part 1

MirAli Mobasheri on February 02, 2021

Why Should You Read This? If you have ever watched Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, you should’ve noticed its popular cutscene, in which...
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Amir Yunas

Great Article. Only fact I would double check is where you mentioned Tim-BL wanted to connect web pages for physicians.

He was working at a Nuclear Research Facility (CERN), so I believe it was to help out Nuclear Physicists.

css-tricks.com/chapter-1-birth/

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MirAli Mobasheri

Yes, you're right. Mr. Baros had mentioned this in another comment and I corrected the text but I think I just fixed it in one sentence and had forgotten to correct it in other sentences. I corrected it now.
Thanks!

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Sherman Bernard

Great post but its pretty dense. I like the use of the expandable points. I recommend breaking the content down further into shorter posts. I think it's easier to digest the information in smaller chunks.

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MirAli Mobasheri

Thanks for your feedback Sherman. I’m glad you liked it. I just published the next part and while it’s way longer than this one, I have made it shorter than what I intended for it. The fact is that I’m trying different approaches and in order to get deep enough I need to explain more things in a single article to make things tick. But I will try to find a way to organize my posts and make them shorter and more readable. 👍

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Dan Vin

Very good article, it’s a nice way to get back to basics of things. You talked about suggestions; here’s one of mind. Don’t know if you intend to make this serie up to all the add-ins we saw coming through the years to facilitate some aspects of the web and answer particular needs we encountered. Of course there are many for backend, but there’s also many for the front-end. At the end, you’ll get a book on the history, so far, of the W3 👍😉

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MirAli Mobasheri

Thanks! Yes I'm thinking to extend the series to write on how the web has changed. It can cover many things like the newest HTML5 tags, modern CSS 3 technics, JS frameworks, AR, VR, AI, machine learning and much more.
So there are many blank pages left to fill... 😄

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nunhes

Great article.

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MirAli Mobasheri

Thanks for the feedback and reminding the error! 😄
I'll update the text with the correct definition of HTTP.

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Christian Ledermann

Also

does stand for: A description list, with terms and descriptions
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MirAli Mobasheri

Oh, thanks. I corrected it. Sorry for such a big mistake.

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Zsombor Z. Berki

Cool article!

I do believe that understanding the original intentions behind a technology helps us utilize them better.

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Danny Engelman

The dominant text-editor WordPerfect (the DOS version) used a Markup language quite similar to HTML. So anyone who did word processing in the 80s and early 90s could write HTML.

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MirAli Mobasheri

That's interesting to know. Thanks for sharing!

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Nice article, when is the next one coming?

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MirAli Mobasheri

Thanks for the feedback.
I think it might take about two weeks for me to publish it. Because it will take me a while to come up with ideas about what I should write to make the articles more useful and comprehensive.

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capjackarrow

Really excellent style, I can sense your mood through the words. Your audience will never be bored like this :)

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MirAli Mobasheri

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :D

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Rob Blake

Bravo! Brilliant article, thanks!

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Thanos Doganis

Very nice article. I really enjoyed it. You reminded me of UNIX NROFF. The era when we used is as text processor to publish or print our documents.

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Steve Baros

Great content for devs who get training from BootCamp as opposed to college.
By referring them as Physicians somewhere in the article i guess you meant Physicists .

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MirAli Mobasheri

Thanks!
Yes, it was Physicists. I corrected it.😅

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Wiz Lee

Very engaging opening by using the scene from A Space Odyssey 👍