This is my second year at RBS. I live in Richmond, Virginia and collect the works of the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. (l776 - 1847). RBS provides a wonderful opportunity to learn about various aspects of the rare book world in courses taught by experts in their respective fields. In l995 I attended Introduction to the Internet to learn how I could use computer technology and the Internet to further my collecting interests. One of the aspects of the Internet course was the use of HTML to create a WWW home page.
On the 4th day of the Introduction to The Internet course our instructor, David Seaman, taught us to create a Home Page for the WWW. This was done using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to create a document which includes an image that we had scanned into the computer the previous day. The HTML tags are used, generally, in pairs, to enclose the head, title, body and paragraphs of the document as well as set the size and face of type. In addition, HTML allows the use of tags to call up graphics or link a document to other locations on the WWW. The advantage of using HTML, which is a form of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is that the text is in ASCII and can be run on all types of computers, IBM, Apple, unix etc.) and is software independant.