Tim reminds us of how important HTML is to the web. If you don’t have a subscription to Wired, you can listen to the audio of the article from this link.
HTML is the quiet architect of the web, an invisible backbone shaping the way we experience the digital world. It’s strange to think how something so foundational often goes unnoticed, its tags and structures forming the unseen skeleton beneath every page we navigate. Without it, the web would dissolve into formless chaos—no frames to hold ideas, no threads to link one thought to another. HTML doesn’t demand attention; it simply exists, a silent mediator between human intention and machine logic. In its simplicity, it carries the weight of infinite complexity, a reminder that even the smallest frameworks can hold vast universes.
Good of you to link to the foundation of the internet. I recall those Netscape days and how HTML was very different to the languages I had been schooled in.