May 2005 – Mobile Web Initiative is launched with the mission of making Web access from a mobile device as simple as Web access from a desktop.August 2000 – Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0, a language to describe 2D graphics in XML is released.February 1998 – Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 is released, promoting interoperability and domain-specific markup, and later serving as the basis for dozens of standards.
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October 1996 – The first W3C recommendation is Portable Network Graphics (PNG) 1.0, a cross-platform alternative to the graphics formats most prevalent at the time.The W3C may not have put together the first HTML specification, but it has been behind many of the technologies that have advanced Web design beyond its original form. Web design has become what is it largely because of the W3C. One HTML standard was eventually agreed upon, after which, the W3C was formed, and Web design history was made. The group was founded to help create Web standards, a need that arose after various vendors were offering different versions of HTML. In 1994, after founding the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (pictured here) founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science.
Modern Web design was (sort-of) founded at M.I.T.