Tangled Web History

A Very Brief History of HTML

October-December 1990

First Web browser written in NeXTStep (Tim Berners-Lee)

1993

Mosaic written (Marc Andreesen)

September, 1995

HTML 2.0 (first official spec) released. This combined a number of informal documents into one official recommendation.

January 1997

HTML 3.2 released. This was an attempt to formalize some of the crud that Netscape had added to HTML.

December 1997

HTML 4.0 released. This newest version, if implemented properly, will get back to the ideal of separating content from presentation.

Document author: Kevin R. Boyce (email: Kevin.R.Boyce@gsfc.nasa.gov)
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