History of HTLM

  • Codes

    Tim Berners-Lee first started to come up with code for his WWW project in 1990. The first mention of him working on code for processing HyperText.
  • WWW Project

    In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Not many people were involved in website creation at the time, and the language was very limiting.
    cite: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
  • HTML

    Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML. HTML has had a life-span of roughly seven years. HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. cited: https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html
  • Lie's Proposal

    Lie's proposal was presented at the "Mosaic and the Web" conference (later called WWW2) in Chicago, Illinois in 1994
  • HTML 2.0

    . A first abortive attempt at extending HTML in 1995 known as HTML 2.0 where the official standards of html were set.
    cite: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/
  • HTML 3.0 Expires

    Due to the increasing amount of abilities and opportunities HTML 3.0 promised it caused the web browsers speed to decrease. Because of this, HTML 3.0 was abandoned.
    Cite: http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofhtml.html
  • HTML 3.0

    HTML + never became a reality. Instead, it evolved into HTML 3.0.Sadly, the browsers were awfully slow in implementing any of the new improvements, only adding in a few and leaving out the rest.
    Cite: http://amyhissom.com/HTML5-CSS3/history.html#2
  • Additions

    WSC is created. In the year of 1996, HTML was able to support tables in order to provide improved control over presentation for information.
    cite: http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html
  • CSS

    CSS is introduced. CSS helps Web developers create a uniform look across several pages of a Web site. CSS makes it easy to change styles across several pages at once.
    Cite: http://amyhissom.com/HTML5-CSS3/history.html
  • JavaScript Style Sheets

    In August 1996 Netscape Communication Corporation presented an alternative style sheet language called JavaScript Style Sheets (JSSS).[
  • HTML3.2

    HTML was made into a more pragmatic approach that was completed in 1997. HTML 3.2 became the new standard of HTML after the 3.0 versions draft has expired.
    cite:https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/)
  • HTML 4.0

    Once HTML 4.0 had been out for a little while, the documentation was revised and corrected in a few minor ways and was entitled HTML 4.01; the final version of the specification.
    Cite: https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/
  • The Creation of CSS level 2

    The CSS Working Group began tackling issues that had not been addressed with CSS level 1, resulting in the creation of CSS level 2 on November 4, 1997.
    Cite: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/
  • Public Draft of HTML 5

    It is a new version of the language HTML, with new elements, attributes, and behaviors, and a larger set of technologies that allows the building of more diverse and powerful Web sites and applications.
    cite: http://www.the-pope.com/lostHTML.htm#xht2