From Overview of JavaScript II -- From Cookies to Dynamical HTML CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. byGeoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)
HTML = Hypertext Markup Language
the lingua franca of the World Wide Web
HTML 2.0 spec completed in Nov 95
HTML+ and HTML 3.0 never released
HTML 3.2 (Jan 97) added tables, applets, and other capabilities (approx. 70 tags)