"A Long Digression Into How Standards are Made"[1] from "Dive into HTML5" talks about this: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html#history-of-the-img-eleme...
I didn't have Internet in '93. Can anyone here elaborate on how images were done prior to this?
This turned out to be a useful change.
Wish I was starting my career in tech 30 years ago when new ideas were this easy to come up with.