The HTML document type was designed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN as part of the 1990 World Wide Web project. In 1992, Dan Connolly wrote the HTML Document Type Definition (DTD) and a brief HTML specification.
Since 1993, a wide variety of Internet participants have contributed to the evolution of HTML, which has included the addition of in-line images introduced by the NCSA Mosaic software for WWW. Dave Raggett played an important role in deriving the FORMS material from the HTML+ specification.
Dan Connolly and Karen Olson Muldrow rewrote the HTML Specification in 1994.
Special thanks to the many people who have contributed to this specification:
- Terry Allen; O'Reilly & Associates; terry@ora.com
- Marc Andreessen; Netscape Communications Corp; marca@mcom.com
- Paul Burchard; The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota; burchard@geom.umn.edu
- James Clark; jjc@jclark.com
- Daniel W. Connolly; HaL Computer Systems; connolly@hal.com
- Roy Fielding; University of California, Irvine; fielding@ics.uci.edu
- Peter Flynn; University College Cork, Ireland; pflynn@www.ucc.ie
- Jay Glicksman; Enterprise Integration Technology; jay@eit.com
- Paul Grosso; ArborText, Inc.; paul@arbortext.com
- Eduardo Gutentag; Sun Microsystems; eduardo@Eng.Sun.com
- Bill Hefley; Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; weh@sei.cmu.edu
- Chung-Jen Ho; Xerox Corporation; cho@xsoft.xerox.com
- Mike Knezovich; Spyglass, Inc.; mike@spyglass.com
- Tim Berners-Lee; CERN; timbl@info.cern.ch
- Tom Magliery; NCSA; mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Murray Maloney; Toronto Development Centre, The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO); murray@sco.com
- Larry Masinter; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; masinter@parc.xerox.com
- Karen Olson Muldrow; HaL Computer Systems; karen@hal.com
- Bill Perry, Spry, Inc., wmperry@spry.com
- Dave Raggett, Hewlett Packard, dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- E. Corprew Reed; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; corp@cshl.org
- Yuri Rubinsky; SoftQuad, Inc.; yuri@sq.com
- Eric Schieler; Spyglass, Inc.; eschieler@spyglass.com
- Eric W. Sink; Spyglass, Inc.; eric@spyglass.com
- Stuart Weibel; OCLC Office of Research; weibel@oclc.org
- Chris Wilson; Spry, Inc.; cwilson@spry.com
HTML 2.0 Specification (Internet Draft) - 29 NOV 94