HTML History Year Version 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented www 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML 1993 Dave Raggett drafted HTML+ 1995 HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0 1997 W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2 1999 W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01 2000 W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0 2008 WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft 2012 WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard 2014 W3C Recommendaton: HTML5 2016 W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML5.1 2017 W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition 2017 W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2 What is HTML? HTML stands for LHyper Text Markup Language HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages HTML describes the structure of a web page HTML consists of a series of elements HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc. What is HTML5? HTML5 is the latest version of Hypertext Markup Language, the structure of a web page with