History of html

No, that's beyond any simple discussion. I'd read up on the wikipedia entry provided. That's probably your best bet.

Honestly the best place for you to go is here... I could copy/paste but you can read the layout a lot better there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#Origins Hope that helps you out. If you need it even more simplified... in 1991 a proposal was made to have a language that could be read by others on a computer in 1995 the proposal was adopted called HTML (HyperText Markup Language). -- Hypertext means it can be read by a user -- Markup language means there are tags than can change the look BOLD ITALICS TABLES etc.... January 1997 is when HTML 3.2 was adopted by the W3C (the people who say what is good and not good on the internet... like the congress of the internet is the best way for me to put it). This is the current incarnation of HTML for the most part. There is now HTML 4.0 but it is VERY much the same as 3.2 That's it in a nutshell.

HTML, along with Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) and uniform resource locator (URL), were created by Tim Berners-Lee in the latter part of the 1980s. Berners-Lee was collaborating in Switzerland at the CERN physics laboratory with another scientist by the name of Robert Calliau. When Berners-Lee was faced with the problem of organizing his notes, he created HTML to make the information accessible and easy to link. At first, Berners-Lee was faced with the problem of only being able to use his creations on his own personal computer. In an article on Berners-Lee for Time magazine, Joshua Quittner asked the question: "But what if he wanted to add stuff that resided on someone else's computer? First he would need that person's permission, and then he would have to do the dreary work of adding the new material to a central database. An even better solution would be to open up his document—and his computer—to everyone and allow them to link their stuff to his. He could limit access to his colleagues at CERN, but why stop there? Open it up to scientists everywhere! Let it span the networks! In Berners-Lee's scheme there would be no central manager, no central database and no scaling problems. The thing could grow like the Internet itself, open-ended and infinite. …Sohe cobbledtogether a relatively easy-to-learn coding system—HTML—that has come to be the lingua franca of the Web. It's the way Web-content creators put those little colored, underlined links in text, add images, and so on."