HTML History

HTML was innovated at European Organization for Nuclear Research. The prupose was to allow scientists to share and link research documents via internet. It has evolved from a simple text-formatting draft into a powerful, multimedia-rich standard that is backbone of modern website.

• HTML invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 at CERN.
• First version HTML consisted of only 18 tages.
• HTML5 is the primary language (markup language) for the Web.
• Web page skeleton which structures layout and content.

The Timline of HTML

1991 - Tim Berners-Lee invents HTML 1.0
1993 - HTML 1.0 is released but few developers created websites that time.
1995 - HTML 2.0 is published with few more features as standard markup language.
1997 - HTML 3.0 was invented by Dave Raggett with improved new designing features.
1999 - HTML 4.0 comes out and widely-used very successful.
2014 - HTML 5.0 was popularly released and used globaly.

HTML Versions & Features Released

Type of content	HTML 1.2	HTML 4.01	HTML5	Purpose
Heading	Yes	Yes	Yes	Added headings and subheadings.
Paragraph	Yes	Yes	Yes	Added text paragraphs
Address	Yes	Yes	Yes	Text block to identify contact info
Anchor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Link to other web page
List	Yes	Yes	Yes	List to organize items
Image	Yes	Yes	Yes	Embed a photograph or drawing
Table	No	Yes	Yes	rows and columns to organize data
Style	No	Yes	Yes	CSS to control page layout, aesthetics and visual presentation
Script	No	Yes	Yes	Add Javascript (more interactive)
Audio	No	No	Yes	Add audio tag
Video	No	No	Yes	Add video tag
Canvas	No	No	Yes	Invisible drawing pad to add drawings (animations, games etc) using Javascript