We are moving offices at work and as we go through our things we have uncovered an old book on HTML from 1996.

It is the second edition of the HTML Sourcebook by Ian S. Graham, and it went home with me as nobody wanted it for some reason. 1996 was the year I learned HTML and I suppose that version of HTML, the version with the blink tags that existed before Internet Explorer, was HTML 3.0 per the book's cover. I suppose the XHTML (HTML as XML) stuff was HTML version 4 and now we of course have HTML 5. Version 3 was out eighteen years ago, huh? What were the first two versions?