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"... done in 1990's style HTML."

Aside: I would have called it "original" style HTML as there was no www before the 1990s.1 IMO, calling it "early" style HTML would not be apropos because the internet, including the www, is still in its infancy.

1. According to Wikipedia there was SGML as early as 1986 but Berners-Lee did not write the the HTML specification until 1990.

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sgml is the precursor to XML, with dsssl as the precursor of XSLT and DTD as the precursor to XML schema and relax-ng.

The first "final" sgml standard document was published in 1986, the initial draft was available in 1980.

http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/sgmlhist.htm

The first html spec was thus accompanied with a DTD.

CERN was heavily involved in the sgml standardization, thus it was natural for Tim Berners-Lee at cern to go the sgml route with html.