Do you remember what happened on the night before Christmas in the last year of the last millennium?
That's right!
HTML 4, or (to be more precise) the HTML 4.01 Specification, was published.
Nearly fifteen years later, the name has jauntily shed its space, and HTML5 has finally reached official status with the publication of HTML5 – A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
It was just 18 months ago that we were singing, "It was twenty years ago tonight/That Sir Timbo brought the web to light" (to the tune of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
That was our celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Word Wide Web.
So, of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5.
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