HTML
See Hypertext Markup Language.
HTTP
See Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Human engineering
See Ergonomics.
Human Torch, The
Growing up in suburban Glenville, the Marvel Comics character Johnny Storm, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, was drawn to automobiles and became quite a mechanic at a young age. Years later, along with his sister Sue, Johnny joined Reed Richards and Ben Grimm in a space flight that changed the lives of every member of the crew. Riddled with cosmic radiation, all of the crew members were physically affected: Reed’s body became elastic, Sue gained the ability to become invisible, Ben was tranformed into a rocklike being Johnny called The Thing, and Johnny’s body transformed into a being of fire when the flight crashed back to earth. Learning to control this powerful ability and calling himself The Human Torch in tribute to a World War II hero, the youthful Johnny proved to be an invaluable (if somewhat volatile) member of the team known as the Fantastic Four. Still a teenage Glenville High student, Johnny tried to conceal his dual identity from most of the locals at first, but this soon proved futile.
Johnny left the group for a time, falling out with his teammates after a battle with the Miracle Man, but returned shortly afterward. In solo action, he fought several super-villains, but they weren’t Johnny’s only rivals. The teenager was in skirmishes with high school rivals and even had some trouble with a few girlfriends! After graduating high school, Johnny enrolled in Metro College, and around this time, met a young Inhuman named Crystal. It was love at first sight, and Johnny, along with the rest of the Fantastic Four, helped her overthrow the mad Inhuman prince Maximus. Their love was passionate but short-lived, as Crystal returned to Attilan and married Quicksilver, the son of Magneto. When Sue and Reed separated, Johnny joined the Thing, Medusa and Thundra in a staged battle against the rehabilitated Namor in an effort to bring the couple back together. Their ploy worked, and Sue and Reed patched things up for good. Eventually Johnny married Alicia Masters. A restless young Johnny Storm has at different times sought an acting career, spent time as (ironically!) a firefighter, and as the Chief Financial Officer for Fantastic Four, Inc.
Johnny Storm/The Human Torch has been portrayed on film by Chris Evans in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) and by Michael B. Jordan in Fantastic Four (2015).
Hunt the pixel
See Pixel hunt.
Hyborian Age
According to Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, the Hyborian Age took place in our world sometime after the fall of Atlantis and before the rise of recorded history, during a time when sorcery existed. This is the Age during which Conan ruled Aquilonia.
Hyde, Mr.
1. A strange, repulsive man, Edward Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson’s representation of the inner brute in all men, as portrayed in his classic tale of horror The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The violent and cruel character, who emerges when Dr. Henry Jekyll’s potion to quell his own inner evil backfires, is not a creature who belongs to the rational world. When he is first encountered, he tramples over a young girl. He does not do this intentionally, yet he inspires fear, antagonism and hatred in others, mainly due to his mere physical appearance. Perhaps ironically or shockingly, since Hyde represents the evil in man, he is represented in Stevenson’s novel as being much smaller and younger than Dr. Jekyll. As the novel progresses, Hyde also creates terror, and his evil becomes more and more pronounced. He bludgeons a man to death only because he appeared to be a good and kindly man, suggesting that pure evil detests pure goodness. Since Jekyll does come to vicariously enjoy the degradations which Hyde commits, Hyde gradually begins to take over the good Dr. Jekyll. The doctor wants to punish Hyde, but at the same time, he recognizes that Hyde is an intimate part of himself. Ultimately, when Jekyll commits suicide in order to get rid of Hyde, this evil act allows Hyde to become the dominant figure, and the dying Jekyll becomes Hyde as he dies.
2. The Marvel Comics villain began as the brilliant but amoral medical research scientist Calvin Zabo. Hungering for the ability to unleash the bestial side of himself, Zabo dedicated his life to finding a chemical formula to enable him to do so. To fund his research, he robbed his numerous employers over time. However, when Zabo applied for work with noted surgeon Donald Blake (the secret identity of Thor), he was refused employment based on his past misdeeds. When he struck upon the formula several months later, Zabo transformed himself into Mister Hyde and immediately sought revenge on Dr. Blake, but was defeated by Thor. Hyde teamed with Cobra to gain revenge on Thor, but to no avail. Despite their defeat, they began a long partnership together. Some time later, Baron Zemo recruited Hyde for his Masters of Evil team. When Mister Hyde received a head wound from the violent Hulk, Calvin Zabo found himself unable to transform into Hyde. Earning the enmity of the criminal Eel, Hyde unknowingly found himself a target of revenge. Hyde had befriended a young runaway, but the Eel killed her, framing Hyde for the murder. Hyde was given counsel by the lawyer Matt Murdock (a.k.a. Daredevil). His powers told him Hyde was innocent, and Daredevil investigated, uncovering the Eel’s involvement. Murdock called the Eel into court and cleared Hyde’s name. Despite being warned by Daredevil that he would be forever watching, Hyde was most recently seen among the prison population of Ryker’s Island. There, he was used as an informant by Toxin’s alter-ego Pat Mulligan, who was tracking his old partner Cobra.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
A specific computer language constructed to create and design webpages. “Hypertext” refers to the use of hyperlinks within the written language of the page, and “markup language” refers to the use of tags to define the page’s layout and internal elements.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>nerDictionary.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an example of a paragraph in HTML.</p>
</body>
</html>
The first line above defines the document’s contents. A document’s title, links, metadata and referenced files are situated between the <head> tags, and the actual contents of the document are seated between the <body> tags. The slash (/) in the tags signifies the end of that element. The exclamation point (!) at the beginning of the code has no role or meaning other than triggering a “standard mode” in browsers.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http)
A set of standards that allows the exchange of information found on web pages among users of computers and the internet. The term was coined by American information technology pioneer Ted Nelson.
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