Yes, <em> and <i> where introduced at the same time in HTML 2 (1995), as were <b> and <strong>. But for any practical purpose <em> and <strong> were ignored unt

Yes, <em> and <i> where introduced at the same time in HTML 2 (1995), as were <b> and <strong>. But for any practical purpose <em> and <strong> were ignored until HTML 4 / XHTML. I've been coding websites professionally since 1996 and I do not recall encountering these tags in the wild. (When I started, the use of head and body elements was the dernier cri – to be coded with <i>. :-) ) Fun fact: the original HTML definition [1] has "typewriter" as the only styling element and uses surrounding underscores ("_are_") for emphasis. [1] http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW//MarkUp/Connolly/complete.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW//MarkUp/Connolly/complete....