HTML was initially defined by a single person, TimBerners-Lee, in 1990. Berners-Lee was
working at a European high-energy physics research center (CERN) when he began developing
HTML, and the early language was designed with science and engineering interests
in mind. Even after a few years of use and revision, the elements of the language could still
be described in a short document [W3C-HTML-HIST]. Specifically, the elements in use
as of November 1992 included the title and paragraph elements that we have already seen,
along with elements for creating hyperlinks, headings, simple lists, glossaries, examples
(text with monospace fonts and any white space retained), and address blocks (containing
information about the document author, and typically italicized). There was also an element
that could be included in a web document to indicate that the web server providing the document
would accept search terms appended to the URL. That was all! There was no facility
for producing tables or fill-in forms, much less for including images within a document