Title:  The Web

Seq:    1.4

Level:  3

Body:

I've been enchanted by the Web from the very early days. 

Desktop publishing was really cool, but now...!

For a mere pittance, an author could publish their words on the Web, and possibly find enthusiastic readers from all over the world!

And then there was HyperText Markup Language (perhaps better known as HTML). 

And suddenly, instead of having to type words into a word processing program, and have them stored in some inscrutable proprietary format, usable primarily for printing out those words on paper, one could code HTML using any old text editor, and have ones words displayed, and read, using any web browser, running on any computer on the planet that had an internet connection. 

And then, to add even more icing to the cake, one could code hyperlinks that would take the reader from any particular spot to any other spot, on the same, or even another, website. 

And so, instead of trapping the reader in the strictly linear world of an article or book, an author could fashion a series of pages, of any length, and link them together in such a way that the reader could choose any entry point, and then choose their own path through the text, depending on which hyperlinks they chose to follow, in turn depending on their interests and inclinations at the time. 

New freedom for both writer and reader!

And so I used HTML to develop my first website, *[Reason to Rock]()
