History of HTML

The seed for HTML was sown by IBM in 1980s. They wanted to set a documentation system in which one could mark the title; headings, paragraphs and fonts type selections. They called it General Mark-up Language (GML). In 1986, the international standardizing organization (ISO) took up this concept and standardized it as Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML). In 1989, Tim Berners Lee and his team in the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERR) designed the present form of the documentation language and called HTML.