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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>making a website</title>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+
+    motivating philosophy for git
+    <br><br>
+    as told by building a website from scratch
+    <br><br>
+    main recitation
+    page <a href="http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.20/doc/git_recitation/index.html">here</a>
+
+    <br><br>
+    <h2><a href="./simple/index.html">simple HTML</a></h2>
+    <h2><a href="./fancy/index.html"> HTML with CSS</a></h2>
+    <h2><a href="./fancier/index.html"> HTML and CSS and JS</a></h2>
+    
+  </body>
+</html>