HTML is an evolving language. It doesn't stay the same for long before a revised set of standards and specifications are brought in to allow easier creation of prettier and more efficient sites.
How history of HTML? Let's Beginning...
- HTML 1.0
The Hyper Text Markup Language was the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In 1991 he wrote a document called "HTML TAGS" in which he proposed fewer than two dozen elements that could be used for writing web pages.
- HTML 2.0
HTML 2.0 included everything from the original 1.0 specification but added a few new features to the mix. HTML 2.0 was the standard for website design until January 1997 and defined many core HTML features for the first time.
- HTML 3.2
HTML 4.0 was recommended by the W3C in December '97 and became the official standard in April 1998. Browser support was undertaken surprisingly earnestly by Microsof in their Internet Explorer browser. HTML 4.0 was a large evolution of the HTML standards, and the last iteration of classic HTML.
- XHTML 1.0
This is the successor to HTML. The "X" stands for Extensible. This is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 within XML (Extensible Markup Language), which is far more rigorous, and is intended to start moving the creation of Web pages away from HTML
- HTML 5
HTML 5 was finalized, and published, on 28 October 2014 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This is the fifth revision of the HTML standard since the inception of the World Wide Web.
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