The beginnings or History of HTML are due to Tim Berners-Lee when he worked at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research). As a CERN worker, he encountered the problem of being able to facilitate access to the information with which they worked from any computer at the center or from other institutions that worked with them. They were looking for a simple and standard way to access all the information. It is at that moment when the HTTP protocol (hypertext transfer protocol) and HTML pages were born.
Tim Berners-Lee used the SGML (Standard General Markup Language) markup language to define the HTML standard. This language defines general labeling rules and structure.
After having the development of the internal Hypertext system, Tim Berners-Lee submitted it to a call to develop the Hypertext system on the Internet together with the systems engineer Robert Cailliau. The proposal they presented was called the World Wide Web.
Release date of the HTML on his History
The first version of HTML was born around 1989 as a subset of SGML and is specified by a document called HTML Tags. In the HTML Tags document we can already see the basic concepts of the HTML language since it defines how to insert text, titles, links and lists. And some element that ended up being lost with the passage of time such as the document index identification.
We can see that they try to bring together concepts such as structure, format and semantics in a language, which have led to the creation of other languages such as CSS and XML.
Later after the appearance of the HTML Language from there other web browsers would be created such as: Samba, Erwise, Viola, etc. Besides what can be considered as the first global web browser created which was Mosaic, developed by the people of NCSA.
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