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HTML1.0 was the first ever release of HTML. When HTML 1.0 was introduced not many people were involved in the creation of websites, and the language for the first HTML limited authors to what they could make. As time went on HTML 2.0 came out! This version of HTML included everything from the first version up to the new features which was now standard for the production of web design. As more people started to see the production of websites pop up, people started to get into the making of websites and the people who wanted to enhance their websites, wanted more tags available. This is where HTML 3.0 came out, within this version trouble started badly, because Netscape was the leader for the main browser in surfing the web. People using the HTML 3.0, to create their websites cried out in agony, and thus new new tags were created, and also attributes! These new tags became known as Netscape extension tags. Of course, this caused more problems, because people using other browsers had difficulty trying to replicate the new tags that way they would not be left behind, but they couldn't see anything when they tried to view their webpages in their browser! A man by the name of Dave Raggett tried to make significant improvements to the HTML codes. In doing this he tried to create more powerful opportunities to design web pages. Unfortunately all the browsers were to slow to handle the new improvements, and his dedication to create better things for HTML users was abandoned. As time went on more changes were made to the HTML code, an Organization by the name of World Wide Web Consortium was established (W3C for short) in 1994 and kept standardizing the language to make it became better and pushed it in the right direction. Even though Netscape developed tags for their web browsers, because of this organization, the tags already made did not fit into the new standards developed the organization. It wasn't until january of 1997 where all browsers finally became able to support all the plugins. Even though HTML had it's struggles becoming fully developed, as time went on it became even better than it's previous version 3.0. In the 4.0 version it involved cascading style sheets and also supported the old tags from the previous versions of HTML .