The Web is rapidly becoming a mass-market medium

The Web is rapidly becoming a mass-market medium, as high-speed Internet connections through TV cables, modernized phone lines, direct satellite feeds, and both public and private wireless networks become increasingly commonplace. You can already browse the Web using a small box attached to your television instead of using your computer, with the cost of such devices likely to fall sharply over the next few years. In other words, it may not be necessary to rely on a computer for web browsing in the near future.

Yet the Internet is no longer the only place you’ll find HTML. Most private corporate networks (called intranets) now use HTML to provide business information to employees and clients. HTML is now the interface of choice for publishing presentations on CD-ROM and the very popular high-capacity digital versatile disk (DVD) format. Microsoft has even integrated HTML directly into the Windows operating system, allowing every storage folder in your computer to be associated with an HTML page and hypertext links to other folders and pages.

In short, HTML is everywhere. Fortunately, you’re in the right place to find out how HTML web pages work and how to create them.