website recommendation for newbie

[esthera]

what website would you recommend for someone new to web development?
1. To learn some of the history of the internet
2. a site that has many introductory samples in html and css to learn together with books.

[the tree]

The World Wide Web consortium (http://w3.org).
Wikipedia on the Internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet).

[Brandon55]

My personal favorite is Web Monkey!
http://www.webmonkey.com

Some other ones I know of are:
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html
http://www.w3schools.com
http://www.udel.edu/topics/internet/WWW
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/Documentation/BasicWebPageBuilding.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/whew/sitelinks.html
http://www.du.edu/~shaag/M17.HTML

Hope you find these useful. Good Luck with your web sites!