20 Years of CSS

On December 17, 1996, W3C published the first standard for CSS. And thus from December 17, 2016 until one year later, CSS is 20 years old.

16 June 2017 Håkon & Bert present ‘CSS Reset’ at CSS Day
January 2017 IDPF & W3C join to develop e-book standards
17 December 2016 20th anniversary of CSS level 1
7 November 2016 CSS Intro course, a MOOC on W3Cx
12 April 2016 First draft of 2nd revision of CSS level 2
12 November 2014 Philae lands on comet 67P
25 June 2013 W3C creates the Digital Publishing IG
13 December 2012 W3C Recommendation for WOFF 1.0
3 April 2012 Final version of jlreq
18 June 2011 MapCSS, CSS-like styles for maps
11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
27 July 2010 First draft of WOFF 1.0
April 2010 caniuse.com (‘Can I use?’) browser support tables
August 2009 LESS CSS pre-processor
2 June 2009 JavaFX CSS, CSS-like styles for GUIs
26 May 2008 Microsoft & Monotype open the EOT format
October 2007 EPUB 2.0 standard released
18 December 2006 Fuji CSS Validator released (more)
October 2005 Sass CSS pre-processor
17/18 October 2006 W3C Print Symposium in Heidelberg
4 October 2006 Qt Style Sheets, CSS-like styles for GUIs
13 April 2005 Acid2 test by Håkon Lie & Ian Hickson
13–29 August 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
7 May 2003 Dave Shea launches the CSS Zen Garden
2 August 2002 First draft of revised CSS level 2.
11 October 2001 W3C Recommendation of XSL 1.0
4 September 2001 W3C Recommendation of SVG 1.0
15 January 2001 Start of Wikipedia
22 June 1999 First 3 CSS3 drafts: Color Profiles, Multi-column layout, and Paged Media
29 January 1999 CSS1 Test Suite (press release) with Todd Fahrner's Box Acid Test
11 January 1999 W3C revises CSS level 1 Recommendation
4 September 1998 Google is founded
12 May 1998 W3C publishes CSS level 2 Recommendation; read the press release
30 March 1998 First beta of CSS Validator announced.
4 November 1997 First Public Working Draft of CSS Level 2 (CSS2); read the press release
17 December 1996 W3C Recommendation of CSS level 1; read the press release
13 August 1996 MSIE 3 browser, with support for CSS
5 July 1996 Birth of Dolly the sheep
27 November 1995 Experimental support for CSS in W3C's Arena browser
6-7 November 1995 W3C Workshop on Style Sheets in Rocquencourt, France
24 August 1995 Release of Windows 95
10 October 1994 Håkon's e-mail to [email protected]

Read more about the history of CSS and the future, see what CSS is not and some imagery around CSS.

And if you do something to celebrate CSS, let me know!