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A derivative of SGML, HTML — which (1) .......... Hypertext Markup Language — was developed in the early 1990s at the CERN laboratories in Switzerland by Tim Berners-Lee, the individual (2) .......... with the creation of the internet as we know it today.
In simple terms, HTML brought structured content coding to the internet by defining the architecture of web pages, (3) .......... giving rise to the World Wide Web. Unlike its parent language SGML, however, HTML is (4) .......... more with visual presentation than with underlying structure. It is, in essence, a single application of SGML, employing a comparatively limited set of tags universally recognised by web browsers. By (5) .......... hypertext links within its framework, HTML incorporates a referential dimension, (6) .......... users to navigate seamlessly between files, images and multimedia content across the network.
The reason that (7) .......... markup languages such as HTML are indispensable for delivering web content lies in the requirement for device independence. Variables such as line breaks and font size are ultimately (8) .......... by the dimensions of a browser window or the display characteristics of the viewing device.