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Historical Roots of HTML

- As internet provides inter-connection between multiple computers, it helps in communication. 

- It means, transfer of data / files from one computer to other connected computer. 

- to share documents on internet, it is necessary that, data in file must be properly structured.

- In 1980, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a very famous physicist suggested the concept of sharing data in the form of documents on Internet.

- For this, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the concept of HTML based on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)

- HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is used to design and develop a web page.

-Web page is file containing data to be displayed in web browser.

- HTML consist of different elements or tags which helps to design any web page.

The historical development of HTML can be given as:

1. HTML 1.0 - was released in 1993 helps in sharing information which can be readable in web browsers. But it is not popularly used for web site. 

2. HTML 2.0 - published in 1995; which contains all the features of HTML 1.0 along with that few additional features for designing and creating websites.

3. HTML 3.0 - released in 1997, It came with many new features of HTML.  

4. HTML 4.01 – released in 1998, which is widely used and was a successful version of HTML. In 1999, this version is extended as 4.01. 

5. HTML 5.0 - currently used worldwide.

HTML gives many advantages such as: 

➤HTML is Easy to Learn and Use. 

➤HTML is very easy to learn and understand. ... 

➤HTML is Free 

➤HTML is Supported by all Browsers. ... 

➤HTML is Simple to Edit. 

➤HTML can Integrate Easily with Other Languages. 

➤HTML is Lightweight.