A long time ago, people to used to build web sites using simple text editors, like Emacs or Notepad. How things have changed. I've only just come from an examination in web development, where the curriculum covered technologies like XHTML, CSS, forms, and a bit of PHP and MySQL. For me, the entire concept of building web sites in this way, from the ground up, seems almost at the end of its history. It certainly is not the way I work professionally any more, and it hasn't been for a while. So first, let's look a brief history of web technologies.

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