The 2008 Prediction That HTML5 Would Take Until 2022
Jeremy Keith has surfaced a fascinating time capsule from the web development community circa 2008. Back then, Ian "Hixie" Hickson made a kind of official speculation that HTML5 wouldn't reach full "recommended" status until 2022 — a 19-year timeline stretching from 2003.
That prediction apparently sparked a small wave of internet drama. At the time, most web developers were convinced that HTML — and perhaps the internet as we know it — would be effectively obsolete by that far-off year. As it turns out, they were wrong on both counts.
Read the full roundup from Jeremy for the details.
