HTML History

Since the early days of the World Wide Web, there have been many versions of HTML:

1.  Year Version 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented www 
2. 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML 
3. 1993 Dave Raggett drafted HTML+ 
4. 1995 HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0 
5. 1997 W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2 
6. 1999 W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01 
7. 2000 W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0 
8. 2008 WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft 
9. 2012 WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard 
10. 2014 W3C Recommendation: HTML5 
11. 2016 W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1 
12. 2017 W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition 
13. 2017 W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2