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19961996: A shared style for the Web
Page content and presentation gained separate tools.
W3C published its CSS1 Recommendation on 17 December 1996. Style sheets specified fonts, colours and spacing.
One set of rules could serve an entire website. Changing its appearance no longer required editing each document separately, simplifying maintenance as the Web grew.
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