3. History 1980-1990 Sir T.B.L. conjures up the WWW including a H yper T ext M arkup L anguage 1994 – IETF takes over and form an HTML working group 1995 – HTML 2 1997 – W3C Takes charge and publishes HTML 3.2 1998 – HTML 4 – with the three flavors 2000 – XHTML 1.0 2001 – XHTML 1.1 … Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group WHATWG 2009 – XHTML 2.0 still in draft – W3C closed XHTML 2 working group