Why was HTML developed?

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HTML was made because it was useful. Billions of people use the internet today, it is obviously a very helpful tool. When the internet was first invented, people had to write in HTML to make things happen. If they didn't nothing would happen. People still do the same thing today.

HTML was developed to be an easy way to create web pages. You don't have to be a programmer to use it. If you can edit a text file, then you can write HTML.

Although HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language it's not really a programming language like Java, Perl, C, or BASIC - it's much simpler. It's a way of describing how a set of text and images should be displayed to the viewer, similar in concept to a newspaper editor's markup symbols.

Its use of descriptive markup was a major factor in the success of the Web, because of the flexibility and extensibility that it enabled.