Versions of HTML

HTML 1.0

The first version of HTML dates from 1991, and was developed by Tim Berners Lee. It was very different from the HTML we know today. Tim Berners Lee is quoted as saying

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me...that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

HTML 2.0

The second version of HTML, in 1996, was an attempt to standardise the language, which was being widely implemented by different vendors’ web browsers…