Timeline: HTML History

1991

Tim Burners Lee creates most of the HTML program and it's first released in June.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

1994

Netscape becomes the top browser and was the first to support Java scripts and html frames.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

1994

W3C creates Html 2.0 and it becomes the base standard for all other web browsers until the release of 3.2.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

1997

W3C is approved for Html 3.2 during the browser wars. The first CSS specification becomes an official W3C Recommendation.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

1998

W3C creates HTML 4.01. initially starting as cougar for HTML 4.0 it later gets approved as 4.01 which included the CSS.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

2000

HTML and XML join forces to create XHTML that creates cleaner code but has to rewrite itself.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

2002

Many people became critical of sloppy code work. Many began to prefer tableless design, and Web 2.0 is quickly adopted.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

2004

W3C rejected a paper by Opera and Mozilla, but after Apple joined later, they created WHATWG
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/html5-the-facts-and-the-myths/

2005

Ajax is created to make it quicker for pages to update dynamic content and respond to it as well.
https://blog.rackspace.com/internet-history-html-evolution

2006

After the separation, Tim Berners-Lee states that moving from html to xml is too difficult, and decided to use WHATWG as the base for any future html.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/

2007

W3C formed a working group chartered to work with the WHATWG on the development of the HTML5 specification after showing interest in building Html 5.
http://amyhissom.com/HTML5-CSS3/history.html