It has been many years since I have actively constructed or maintained a web page. The last time I did I believe I was only about sixteen years old (I am twenty four now). However, this is not to say that I am totally inexperienced. I first began learning HTML, which stands for “hyper text markup language,” when I was twelve years old, and was quite active in the four years following, eventually moving into the much more object-oriented language, Javascript, but the internet was used and thought of much differently than it is now. For the most part I coded my pages manually in a text editor, but would sometimes employ the software of the day such as dreamweaver or front page. While none of my old pages exist any longer, having been slowly dismantled by their hosts, the experience provided a strong basis for learning other programming languages.
The “HT” in html stands for “hypertext”, which refers to electronic text that links to other documents or images. The “ML” stands for “markup language,” which is the method of organizing and structuring the page’s compositional elements and content. The markup language is the “back end” of the program that designates what the user sees, as opposed to actually being seen by him or her. Javascript is much more similar to standard programming languages like C++. It is much more object oriented and allows a page to function like any other computer program, and change based on conditions rather than being static like a page out of a book. The xml and asp formats are new animals to me. I’ve never used them to produce content, am not intimately familiar with their applications. Yet 
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