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# What is HTML?

Welcome to The Origins Trilogy! The beginning of your web development journey. 🌋

The language we are learning is HTML, or HyperText Markup Language. It was created by a developer named Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.

Today, every website in the world uses HTML!

As the name suggests, HTML is a markup language; it marks up every piece of content on a web page and defines its type. Pretty simple and perfect for beginners!

However, HTML is just one piece used to build a web page. Most web pages use:

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  HTML: Create the website skeleton.

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  CSS: Modify the website appearance.

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  JavaScript: Make it interactive.

This course will focus on HTML to build a strong foundation.

The programs we write will be files with the extension .html.

Ah one more thing, you need a code editor! A code editor is a text editor that can write and run code.

And we have one here. Let's test it out!

Instructions

A shooting star is falling on the horizon — make a wish! 💫

Type these two lines of code onto line 3:

<h2>Write the date</h2>
<p>Write your wish</p>

• Replace Write the date with today's date.
• Replace Write your wish with a wish.

And then press the "Run" button.

You just created your first web page with HTML!

Press "Complete" and then "Next" to continue.

Happy coding! (ﾉ ◕ ヮ ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ ✧

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Complete the following mandatory chapters:
HTML Chapters 1-2, CSS Chapters 1-2, and JavaScript Chapters 1-2.

You will submit the code in the last exercise of each of the chapters:

HTML

Exercise 7: Favorite Band

Exercise 14: MySpace Top 8

CSS

Exercise 5: Concert Flyer

Exercise 12: Invitation

JavaScript

Exercise 5: Receipt

Exercise 10: Planet Weight

Once you've completed all of them, you can submit your work
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