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September 1992 is generally accepted as the month Acorn's A3020 was released to market, and I think the first computer I did anything with HTML on. Its consumer equivalent was the A3010 but these were orderable through education suppliers and came with a minimum of 2MB RAM (no hard drive as standard) plus an ARM 250 processor which was nearly twice as fast as the original A3000.
These days you can emulate original Archimedes/Acorn machines in a browser: https://archi.medes.live/
It's a few years after this that the web begins to become established, with the creator of !ArcWeb (an early browser) citing RFC 1866 for HTML 2.0 as published in November 1995. So we got the basic functionality of hyperlinks, text formatting and images, similar to earlier "hypermedia" software such as Genesis and Magpie, and within a few short years by the end of the 90s Acorn Computers were effectively obsoleted in UK education by Windows PCs.
Photo credit: Marcin Wichary, Acorn Archimedes A3020 at National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park from Wikipedia
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