Thursday, April 21, 2011

Generalized Markup Language

IBM researcher Charles Goldfarb develops the Generalized Markup Language in 1969. This language consists of a set of tags and is used as a means for allowing subsystems to share documents. Goldfarb follows up this work with the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in 1974, which forms the foundation for the web's HTML and XML language sets.
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