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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web. Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render them into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

HTML Timeline:

1989 - Tim Berners-Lee began to come up with the concept of HTML as he was working with CERN. Soon the internet was invented by him.

1991 - Tim kept his ideas open to the public online, trying his best to spread his work. Along with this, late in the year the WWW-talk was created as a mailing system.

1992 - Joseph Hardin and Dave Thompson caught wind of Tim's ideas of HTML. Later the IMG tag was introduced by the Mosaic Team.

1993 - Version 1 of Mosaic Browser was released for the Sun Microsystems's Inc. This extended features, including images, forms, and lists. There was starting of another browser as well, the Arena Browser.

1994 - HTML 2.0 is beginning to be formed and readying for release. HTML was to include everything 1.0 had with new added features.

1995 - HTML 2.0 and soon 3.0 was created by T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly. This lasted all the way up to January 1997.

1997 - HTML 3.2 is completed and released to the public. Later in the year, HTML 4.0 is created.

1998 - W3C membership stopped evolving HTML. Instead work began on an XML-based equal, named XHTML. This was a reformulation of HTML 4.0 into XML code, also known as XHTML 1.0.

2000 - Parts of API for HTML was specified and published under names of DOM Level 1, DOM Level 2 CORE, and DOM Level 2 HTML. These efforts were soon stopped, due to DOM Level 3 specifications.

2003 - Publication of XForm sparked a renewed interest in HTML itself, rather than finding replacements for it. This came to mind as realization that XML was limited to new technologies.

2004 - HTML's evolution was reopened and began being tested on, starting on HTML5 as well as early draft proposals. Soon, Apple, Mozilla, and Opera jointly announced their intent to continue working on this effort.

2007 - Working group chartered to work with WHATWG for development of HTML5. Apple, Mozilla, and Opera allowed W3C to publish specification under W3C copyright.

"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."

Tim Berners-Lee

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HTML History