Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) Founded
Written by Jay on June 4, 2004.
Representatives from Mozilla and Opera, led by Ian Hickson, form the WHATWG as a response to the direction of the W3C. The new standards body begins with a mailing list and simple charter to discuss how to improve the HTML markup language.
I took the best posts from The History of the Web, over sixty of them, and compiled them into a single volume. So now you can read about the web's history wherever you go.
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web..
