HISTORY OF HTML
Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist at the CERN research institute in Switzerland invented HTML in 1991.
This first version consisted of 18 HTML tages.
Now, there are currently about 140 HTML tags, although not all of them are supported by modern browsers.
Learn more about Tim Berners-Lee here:
Tim Berners-Lee
The Timline of HTML
- 1991- Tim Berners-Lee invents HTML 1.0
- 1993- HTML 1.0 is released. Not many developers are creating websites at this time.
- 1995- HTML 2.0 is published. This contains the features of HTML 1.0 plus new features. This remained the standard markup language for designing and creating websites until 1997.
- 1997- HTML 3.0 was invented. Here, Dave Raggett introduced a fresh draft on HTML, which improved new features of HTML and gave more powerful characteristics for webmasters in designing websites. Unfortunately, the powerful features slowed down the browser in applying further improvements.
- 1999- The widely-used HTML 4.0 comes out. It is very successful.
- 2014- HTML 5.0 is released and used worldwide. It is said to be the extended version of HTML 4.01 which was published in 2012.
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