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What was going on in the web development world that XHTML was designed to address? Was it successful?

W3C Markup Validation Service CERNE
  1. Validates HTML markup of web pages, one at a time.
    In this context, "must have" means "to pass the W3C validator," because in the long run, XHTML 2.0 was meant to be read only by browsers that could parse XML (not HTML). No XML, no content shows up (either XML on the browser end, or proper XHTML on the author end).

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    CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.
    When Tim Berners-Lee was working as a contractor at CERN in the late 1980s, he noticed that document storage and retrieval was a pain in the tuckus, particularly because CERN is built in a gigantic ring with several kilometers between research stations. He wrote the original HTML software to make it easier to electronically retrieve and share documents between people on the CERN network, and asked CERN to take it on as a research project. They declined to do so, so he kept working on the language and how to serve it up and released it to the public in 1991 (that is, that portion of the public which frequented an internet bulletin board devoted to hypertext. He didn’t, like, take out an ad in the paper.) He also posted the first web page, which has been preserved at CERN.

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