CERN Physicist Tim Berners-Lee needed “a pool of information which could grow and evolve with the organisation and the projects it describes.”

☞ Read more: Information Management: A Proposal

Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTTP, and wrote the first HTML page.

☞ Read more on CERN

Berners-Lee presented the WWW at the IETF conference in a small session:

☞ Read more: IETF 26 Proceedings

NCSA creates the free "Mosaic" browser, and adds bookmarks, images, and a better UI:

☞ Read more: NCSA Mosaic

☞ Read more: History of the Internet

Berners-Lee founds the W3C to standardize HTML for all browsers to follow.

• 1995: HTML 2.0
• 1997 (Jan): HTML 3.2
• 1997 (Dec): HTML 4.0
• 1999: HTML 4.01

☞ Read more: HTML Version History

Browser developers got frustrated with W3C progress and created a new standards committee to write the "HTML5" spec, which adds:

• Form input types
• Audio/video
• 2d/3d Graphics
• Data storage
• New semantic tags
• Drag-and-drop
• ...and more!

In 2008, the W3C adopted it as a standard.