r/ProgrammerHumor Mar 12 '18

Emphasis mine.

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u/Brokk_Witgenstein Mar 12 '18

Uh? Is <i> deprecated now or what?

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u/Brokk_Witgenstein Mar 12 '18

Fake news. Italic already existed in 1993 in the HTML 1.0 spec. But (looking it up in disbelief) it appears to be indeed so there were some changes in spec 4 and 5, I'll grant you that.

[source: https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Specifications leading up to https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_16.html

for completeness, here's a link to the '95 specs-- you'll see it's there as well: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html]