The History of the Web

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A history of HTML

Written by Jay on January 1, 1998.

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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.

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1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.

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