Charles F. Goldfarb, (born November 26, 1939) is known as the father of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)[1] and grandfather of HTML[2] and the World Wide Web, also referred to as WWW, W3, or the Web.

[4] In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading a small team at IBM,[5] developed the first markup language, called Generalized Markup Language,[6] or GML.

[10] SGML facilitates the sharing of machine readable documents for large projects.

[14] After working at IBM's Almaden Research Center,[15] he was an independent consultant based in Belmont, California.

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