From MichaelMetcalf@compuserve.com Tue Jun 6 07:38:51 2000 Received: from sphmgaaf.compuserve.com (hs-img-6.compuserve.com [149.174.177.155]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA11804 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 07:38:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from MichaelMetcalf@compuserve.com) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by sphmgaaf.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.9) id BAA19127; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:38:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:37:49 -0400 From: Michael Metcalf Subject: (SC22WG5.1827) RE: RE: Nara - use of WORD, WG5 N1384 Sender: Michael Metcalf To: "Loren P Meissner" Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Message-ID: <200006060138_MC2-A79F-8218@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dkuug.dk id HAA11804 Message text written by "Loren P Meissner" >I'm not sure about the origins of RTF and HTML.< HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) was originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN as part of his development of the World-Wide Web. It is similar to SGML (Standardised Generic Mark-up Language) that had been previously developed by ISO for documents. The secretary of the ISO committee was, at that time, also at CERN and in a nearby office ... Regards, Mike Metcalf