Short History
Origins of HTML
HTML was first proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in .
- HTML 1.0 — Basic structure
- HTML 4.0 — Widely adopted
- HTML5 — Modern, semantic, multimedia-friendly
Milestones
- 1991 — First website published
- 1995 — HTML 2.0 released
- 2014 — HTML5 becomes W3C recommendation
Definitions
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language, the standard for web pages.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium, the body that standardizes web technologies.
- Semantics
- Using meaningful tags that describe their purpose.