Is it in fact possible to find archived HTML references and style guides written in the days before Netscape tempted us fatally down the primrose way?
@mona Sure, the W3C keeps all that stuff around. Here's some:
* TBL's first public writeup of HTML from 1992: https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html
* The more formal proposal to the IETF for standardization, from '93: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
* The RFC for what would become HTML 2.0, the first "real" spec for HTML, from '95: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866
@mona No problem! If you want more, wiki has a good rundown of the evolution of the standard with links to all the original source documents here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#History
@jalefkowit Ah, excellent! finally a helpful reply.