Trend: HTML5 as the next emerging standard

Trend: Html5 as the next emerging standard
Title: info graphic: history of web standards
Comment: the slow and steady march to html5

Link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/infographic-history-of-web-sta.php

You probably already knew that Arpanet was established in 1962, but did you know that "hypertext" was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson? What about the fact that only 1.9% of the world's population were using the Internet in 1998?

Some other interesting tidbits: The first Web site went online in December of 1990. By the following year there were a whopping 10 sites online, and 50 the following year. In 1993, the Web comprised a total of 623 sites.

The predictions are pretty conservative, especially the last: "People will continue to complain that the W3C moves too slowly and that browser vendors make stuff up too willy-nilly." Well, yeah. With the final HTML5 spec not due out for years, it's hard to argue that the W3C moves fast enough.