10.2 History of HTML

1.	HTML was developed by Tim Berners-Lee while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
2.	The first browser to handle HTML was the Mosaic Browser developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), at the University of Illinois, U.S.
3.	The motivation to share work on the Web in a standard way has resulted in work on an HTML specification.
4.	HTML 2.0 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), with HTML 3.2 developed later with richer features.
5.	HTML 4.0 presented a big improvement on the HTML standard.
6.	It focused on internationalization and supported presentation languages such as the cascading style sheets. In January 2000, XHTML was released, which marked the departure from the traditional HTML.
7.	XHTML incorporated the Extensible Markup Language (XML) that has many advantages including:

	a)	Separating the data and its presentation.
	b)	XHTML documents must be syntactically correct to be loaded and displayed on web browsers, replacing the traditional HTML best effort mechanism.

10.2 History of HTML

8.	Specification for HTML 5 is currently in progress. Initially, the writing process of HTML 5 was started by a group of web technology programmers and specification writers outside the W3C.
9.	After that, W3C decided that XHTML 2 is not the best option for the future of the Web and decided to adopt HTML 5.