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During 1980, IBM  developed General Markup Language  (GML),  after which the American National
                 Standards Institute (ANSI) published a working draft of Standard GML or Standard Generalized Markup
                 Language (SGML).
                 SGML, which was comparatively a higher level markup language, was adopted by the US Internal Revenue
                 Service and Department of Defense, USA.

                 Simplifying  further,  HTML  was  developed  in  1990 as a  subset of  SGML,  whose  credit  goes  to  Tim
                 Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a European practical
                 physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland).





                                   GML                       SGML                              HTML






                 HTML and SGML, though are from the same family but only a few browsers support both. HTML was
                 designed to create web pages that can be viewed on any type of computer architecture or by using any
                 web browser on Internet.
                         Notes

                         World Wide Web Consortium  (W3C): Tim  Berners-Lee proposed for formation of a consortium  to
                         handle the problems of establishing standards for HTML and HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), for
                         compliance and approvals. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 with the goal
                         to develop and set common standards for World Wide Web. It is hosted by Massachusetts Institute
                         of Technology in the USA, INFERIA in France and Keio University. The members of its committee are
                         representatives of World Wide Web companies, including organizations such as Microsoft, Netscape,
                         Sun Microsystems, IBM and Others.


                   EVOLUTION OF HTML

                 HTML has evolved to make websites better and more interactive. HTML 1.0 (1993) was basic for structuring
                 text and links. HTML 2.0 (1995) added forms. HTML 3.0 aimed for advanced features but wasn't widely
                 used. HTML 4.0 (1997) introduced CSS, JavaScript, and multimedia. HTML 5.0 (2014) brought modern
                 features like audio, video, and APIs. Today, HTML is essential for the web.

                 The following table lists the evolution of HTML, their Version, Release Year, and Key Features and Changes:
                     Version        Release Year                       Key Features and Changes

                                                    First version of HTML, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. It provided
                     HTML 1.0           1993        the basic structure for web pages, including headings, paragraphs,
                                                    and links.
                                                    Standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, it introduced
                     HTML 2.0           1995
                                                    basic forms and provided more robust support for text formatting.

                                                    Introduced by the W3C with three versions: Strict, Transitional, and
                                                    Frameset. It added  support for  more multimedia content  (e.g.,
                     HTML 3.2           1997
                                                    embedding audio and video) and enhanced forms while improving
                                                    accessibility features.


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