History of the WWW
Mar 1989 - Project Proposal
Dec 1990 - 1st Website (TBL CERN WWW)
Dec 1990 - 1st Web Browser (WorldWideWeb) - NeXTSTEP,
white backgrounds, pointer cursor doesn't
change over links, each link opens in a new
window, WYSIWYG editor.
Oct 1991 - HTML Tags (13 tags, 9 persisting)
Dec 1991 - 2nd Website (Stanford)
Feb 1992 - 3rd Website (Dutch National Institute)
Jul 1992 - 1st Pic on the Web (Cernettes)
Jan 1993 - Mosaic - inline images, forms, nested lists
1993 - MTV, Wired, Bloomberg, IMDB, 623 websites
Jun 1993 - First Proposal for HTML spec
Nov 1993 - HTML+
1993 - Arena (browser) - background images, tables,
text flow around images.
Sep 1994 - Netscape
Oct 1994 - Cookie support in Netscape
Nov 1994 - HTML 2 draft
Apr 1995 - HTML 3 draft
May 1995 - MySQL
Aug 1995 - Internet Explorer
Sep 1995 - Netscape 2, Javascript, Java, font colors,
div, animated GIF, super/sub-script
Oct 1995 - Internet Explorer 2
Nov 1995 - HTML 2 standard
Mar 1996 - IE 3
Aug 1996 - Netscape 3
Dec 1996 - CSS1
Jan 1997 - HTML 3 standard
Apr 1997 - IE 4
Jun 1997 - Netscape 4 (Communicator), CSS
Nov 1997 - CSS2
Dec 1997 - HTML 4 standard
Jun 1998 - IE 5
Aug 1998 - Flash
Jun 1999 - CSS3
Jan 2008 - HTML 5 draft
Oct 2014 - HTML 5 standard
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- HTML 3.0 (aka HTML+), says ViolaWWW start page
- There is no carriage return (<BR>) in original HTML tags!
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