10/04/2022
The idea of hypertext caught on very quickly. Soon a large network of hypertext documents grew up on the Internet, which gradually became known as the World Wide Web. In addition, in 1993, a team of programmers, led by Netscape founder Marc Andriessen, developed the first browser with a full graphical interface and allows you to work with a mouse - Mosaic. This could not but add to the popularity of the rapidly developing Web.
Over time, the Internet became in demand not only by scientists: ordinary users also came to it, and their number was steadily increasing. For many, it was obvious that HTML, which does not imply any dynamics in the documents created with its help, is rather boring and nondescript. This gave impetus to the development of CSS technologies, the introduction of support for Java applets, and then scripts (JavaScript was the first language).
It should be noted that with the formation and growth of the Network of creators of HTML, the "purity" of their offspring was seriously excited. There were not unreasonable fears that browser manufacturers, which were soon to come to the market, would "spoil" their users with branded innovations, which, of course, would be supported only by branded browsers. In 1994, an organization was created that took over the development of uniform standards for the development of WWW - the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This organization also took up the preparation of HTML standards (starting with HTML 2.0). True, despite the presence of the W3C, innovations in HTML began to be supported by browser manufacturers much earlier than this organization standardized them (for example, it was the case with frames, with scripting in HTML documents, with the document object model, etc.) .