Tools can be used beyond the area they were originally intended for and still be useful and appropriate. Tim Berners-Lee probably didn't have single-page appli

Tools can be used beyond the area they were originally intended for and still be useful and appropriate. Tim Berners-Lee probably didn't have single-page applications in mind when he invented HTML but hyperlinked documents are also inherently more dynamic and application-like than traditional documents. Just think about HyperCard, which is a similar concept HTML and the World Wide Web were inspired by. So, yes in a way indeed HTML was also built for many of the purposes it's used for today.