A lot of you now know the languages, but what's the history behind them? Well, you'll find that out in this tutorial...
The internet was developed in the early '90s. At first, even PhD-holding scientists were frusterated
when they tried to swap data. However, in around 1992, some brillant guy invented a language called HTML.
HTML revolutionized the internet and turned it into a gold mine of information. But it doesn't stop there.
No sir. HTML 1.0 is now just a backwards language, and having an HTML 1.0 website makes you look more backward than having no site at all.
In 1994, HTML 2.0 added new features, such as formanting, and the use of images.
HTML 3.0 was a doomed failure. HTML 3.2 fixed that and added so many tags, nobody knew what to do with them.
HTML 4.0 was an attempt to decaprate the incredibly complex HTML 3.2. It was also an attempt to
bring stylesheets into the the picture and formanting tags out. (Stylesheets are what this site uses
I'll write a tutorial on them later...). Alas, the last version of HTML is XHTML 1.0 (HTML 5.0).
XHTML is meant to combine HTML and XML (the XML tutorial is coming, honest!!!)
The only differences are that every tag must be lowercase, and every tag without a closing tag
must have a slash (i.e. <img src="pic.gif" />). This site uses HTML 4.0 and stylesheets.
MS-DOS languages are mostly non-graphical. QBASIC and C++ are DOS languages.
As you can see, MS-DOS was not that impressive. However, Windows ® is actually a DOS program. I won't bother getting into that.
Windows came out in 1989 to replace DOS. Here's a quote about Windows 1.0:
"Windows came out in 1989 to ward off the growing popularity of UNIX. Of course, everyone hated it"
(It's a long story... Linux is their new competitor...)
The main Windows language is Visual Basic...
This is were it gets fun. I'm going to speculate on some future languages and you just listen (or read...)
I'm guessing there will be an increased use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) to get your programming done
for you... (Although I hope not, because then I'd be out of business...). Everything will most likely be 3-D.
(I've heard from someone at Microsoft that the new version of Windows [CODE NAME: Longhorn]
takes three 3-D axcelerator cards :-O). If you have heard of any other amazing developments, e-mail us...