History of HTML - HTML5 Tutorials part2 - Tutorials Hacks OK and Projects OK

u1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents the Web with HTML as its publishing language.

uThrough 1990: The time was ripe for Tim's invention.

uSeptember 1991: Open discussion about HTML across the Internet begins.

uLate 1992: NCSA is intrigued by the idea of the Web.

uDecember 1992: Marc Andreessen makes a brief appearance on WWW- talk.

uMarch 1993: Lou Montulli releases the Lynx browser version 2.0a.

uEarly 1993: Dave Raggett begins to write his own browser.

uApril 1993: The Mosaic browser is released.

uLate 1993: Large companies underestimate the importance of the Web.

uMay 1994: NCSA assigns commercial rights for Mosaic browser to Spyglass, Inc.

uMay 1994: The first World Wide Web conference is held in Geneva, with HTML+ on show.

uSeptember 1994: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) sets up an HTML working group.

uJuly 1994: HTML specification for HTML 2 is released.

uNovember 1994: Netscape is formed.

uLate 1994: The World Wide Web Consortium formed.

uThrough 1995: HTML is extended with many new tags.

uMarch 1995: HTML 3 is published as an Internet Draft.

uMarch 1995: A furor over the HTML Tables specification.

uAugust 1995: Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser comes out.

uSeptember 1995: Netscape submits a proposal for frames.

uNovember 1995: The HTML working group runs into problems.

uNovember 1995: Vendors unite to form a new group dedicated to developing an HTML standard.

uNovember 1995: Style sheets for HTML documents begin to take shape.

uNovember 1995: Internationalization of HTML Internet Draft.

uDecember 1995: The HTML working group is dismantled.

uFebruary 1996: The HTML ERB is formed.

uApril 1996: The W3 Consortium working draft on Scripting comes out.

uJuly 1996: Microsoft seems more interested than first imagined in open standards.

uDecember 1996: Work on `Cougar' is begun.

uJanuary 1997: HTML 3.2 is ready.

uIn 1999: W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01.

uIn 2000: W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0.

uIn 2008 : WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft.

uIn 2012 : WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard.

uIn 2014 : W3C Recommendation: HTML5.

uIn 2016 : W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1.