HTML was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in

late 1991 but was not released officially, which was

published in 1995 as HTML 2.0. Tim Berners-Lee, a
worker at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear
Research) proposed a new "hypertext" system for
sharing documents. In the field of information
technology, the "hypertext" allowed users to access
information related to the electronic documents
they were viewing. In a certain way, the primitive
"hypertext" systems could be assimilated to the
links of the current web pages.
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The first formal document with
the description of HTML was published in 1991 under the name HTML
Tags (HTML tags) and can still be consulted online today as a computer
relic. In 1995, the IETF organizes a working group of HTML and manages
to publish, on September 22 of that same year, the HTML 2.0 standard.
Despite its name, HTML 2.0 is the first official HTML standard. The HTML
3.2 version was published on January 14, 1997 and is the first HTML
recommendation published by the W3C. The history of HTML at W3C
starts with HTML 3.2, code named “Wilbur”, which was followed a few
years later by HTML 4.0, then HTML 4.01. In 2008 W3C published HTML
5, with a major update and "W3C Recommendation" status in October
2014. HTML 5 is the last version of HTML, and is also the final W3C
specification to define the semantics of markup. XHTML 1.0 was created
shortly after HTML 4.01 to help the transition of hypertext to a new
generation of mark-up languages for text. XHTML 1.1 is an additional step
toward a more flexible version of hypertext with the full benefits of XML
architecture and integration of different technologies. HTML is a very
evolving markup language and has evolved with various versions
updating.