Hello Laura, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:26:38 -0800 GMT (18/01/03, 00:26 +0700 GMT), Laura wrote:
> and just for the record, HTML was not designed to be for web > pages only. It started long ago by IBM.. I am sorry, but this is historical nonsense. I have been to the IBM museum (forgot which state in the US that was) and saw schollkids who learned there that IBM invented the computer. Fact is, the computer was invented by Conrad Zuse (Google has more info on this German inventor), and HTML was invented by James Bernhard Lee at CERN in Switzerland. HTML is the "HyperText Markup Language" and links documents via the hypertext technology. Some people say he therefore invented the WWW (thus it *is* intended for web pages), but Xanadu claims to have had the first idea (of a world-wide web - but they didn't know anything about HTML at the time). I won't argue who invented the WWW. But HTML was never meant to be part of email, which at the time when HTML was created didn't even know anything but plain text. But then, Al Gore invented the internet... -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/3 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
