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A History of HTML (1998)
- ArtWomb 4y agoReal unfolding of the web as it happened can be obtained by perusing the www-talk@w3c.org mailing list archives: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/ https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/ Look at the frenetic discourse around Eolas being granted a patent for "weblets". It's kind of amazing that a bespoke web "grid computer" almost became the standard for 3D viz in the browser. Instead I recall just a lot of fragmentation in the early 3D web: Sun people just used Java applets, MS folks rolled out ActiveX controls, etc. Eolas MultiVIS™: A Web-based interactive remote visualization environment and navigable volume imagemap system http://www.eolas.com/img/20-1-spie-aipr-10-99-multivis.pdf http://www.eolas.com/img/20-1-spie-aipr-10-99-multivis.pdf
- jll29 4y agoWhile a lot of details were common Web folklore, I was not aware that "Wolfgang and the Werewolves" played at WWW1.
- colejohnson66 4y agoSee also: The Lost Tags of HTML: http://www.the-pope.com/lostHTML.htm http://www.the-pope.com/lostHTML.htm
- iamcrazyyounus 4y agoSir Tim Berners-Lee developed HTML in late 1991 but did not formally release it. HTML 2.0 was released in 1995. HTML 4.01, a significant version, was released in late 1999.
- vinibrito 4y agoThat brought me teen years memories. When I learned, it was HTML 4.
- sytelus 4y agoHe apparently had been working on this since all the way in 1980 and had a system for his own personal use. Like a lot of things, it wasn’t a stroke of genius in few seconds but rather decades long thinking and mulling over how the linked documents should/can look like.