A tale from 30 years of HTML
<p>In a few days the Hypertext Markup Language known to most simply as “HTML” will turn 30 years old. After the release of its first version back on November 3rd, 1992 its come a long way. A very long way.</p>
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<p>“Back in my days, we used to stuff the HTML code as resources into our CGI applications. Frontend development was a thing everyone just did.” — <strong>Annonymous programmer from the 90s</strong></p>
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<p>Although released in 1992, it took HTML and the world wide web quite a while to gain some traction. It took all the way up to 1995 and ‘96 for the world wide web to take off. Before then, it was pretty much a thing for a couple of geeks, programmers and tech enthusiasts.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:593/0*eIPH-JFI9xz7pUZD" style="height:517px; width:659px" /></p>
<p>Netscape Navigator on Windows 3.1</p>
<p>Browsing the world wide web was already an adventure and took quite some time and patience to setup. Building websites wasn’t really a thing and if you wanted to build commercial applications, you’d still had to make the choice between the Web, France’s Minitel or Germany’s BTX. And I would also want to leave an honorable mention of the Gopher protocol here.</p>
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