Re: it was twenty year ago today

Blame me.  I was doing archeology on the development of the languages
for a conference talk on the development of standards (a long look at
HTML3) and noticed 10 Oct was imminent, and camped in Hakon's garden
until he agreed to be interviewed.

bruce

On 12 October 2014 16:03, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
> Having been around for most of these events, I guess it depends on where one
> starts counting. Some possible starting points:
>
> the Oct 10, 1994 proposal [1]
> the May, 1995 inauguration of the www-style@w3.org ML [2]
> the Nov, 1995 Style workshop [3]
> the Dec 17, 1996 publishing CSS1 as a REC [4]
>
> Celebrating 10 years in 2006 uses [4], while 20 years in 2014 uses [1]. Both
> are not unreasonable. :)
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/People/howcome/p/cascade.html
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1995May/0000.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/Style/951106_Workshop/
> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com> wrote:
>>
>> Håkon, don’t switch dates (or your way of counting) all the time,
>> celebrating 10 years in 2007 [1] and 20 years in 2014 ^_^
>>
>> (All the while the W3C marked the 10th anniversary in 2006 [2] ;)
>>
>>
>> [1] http://alistapart.com/article/cssatten
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS10/
>>
>> --
>> Jens O. Meiert
>> http://meiert.com/en/
>>
>

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