When World Wide Web first came to existence, Web browsing was a passive affair. Users download a page of text and graphics and looked at it, clicking links to other pages. Added to the attraction was the fact that the language of web pages- Hyper Text Markup Language was easy to learn, so people started their own pages.
Marking up text
The most basic element of any HTML page is ASCII text. A single paragraph of text generated in a text editor and saved as a text file can be displayed in a Web browser with no additional codes or markings.
Tools
To create a Web page all you really need is a text editor and a Web browser (Netscape communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer) for testing your creation. Any program that generates ASCII text files will work fine as an HTML editor. In Windows 95, you can use Notepad as your text editor.