After graduating from U.T. Austin, Dan Connolly discovered and joined the web project. His experience in online documentation tools and formal systems led him to develop the specification for HTML , the Hyper-Text Markup Language. Soon after that, in January of 1992, the first public release of CERN's text-mode browser, now version 1.1, was released. The first public release graphics-mode browser, Marc Andreessen's Mosaic for X , was released by NCSA in February of 1993. Mosaic used the first HTML standard, designed by Dan Connolly.
Most tags have two parts, an opening tag, and a closing tag.
HTML Version 2.0 Refinements in the HTML language led to the development of the HTML 2.0 standard. HTML 2.0 included such things as the ability to handle forms, and better image handling. This was the standard for Hyper-Text Markup Language when the web truly began to spread its wings. The HTML 3.0 standard never came to fruition, and is no longer supported. What occurred was that the the standard decided upon by the W3 Consortium was so different from what was currently being used on the web, that trying to implement the new standard would have proved to be far too unwieldy.