Die Werbetrommel für ein schnelleres Internet rührte Microsoft schon vor Tagen, jetzt liegen erstmals handfeste Informationen dazu vor. In einem Entwurf für die zurzeit tagende IETF-Arbeitsgruppe zu HTTP 2.0 führt das Unternehmen seine Ideen genauer aus.
The idea of markup languages was apparently first publicly presented by the engineer William W. Tunnicliffe (1922-1996) from Washington, D.C. In September of 1967, during a meeting at the Canadian Government Printing Office, Tunnicliffe gave a presentation on the separation of information content of documents from their format.
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