What Does HTML Stand For?
Hypertext Markup Language
As you can probably guess from the title, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is a language used by web browsers to interpret and represent text, images, videos, audio and other mediums for people on web pages. HTML defines the structure of a website while other technologies their appearance (CSS) and behaviour (JavaScript). "Hypertext" describes the links between pages of content on the web that you can access immediately by clicking on said link. "Markup" refers to the method by which text, images, and other content is annotated to then be displayed. Examples of the these markup elemetns include <head>, <title>, <body>, <header>, <footer>, <article>, <section>, <p>, <video>, <ul>, <ol>, <li> and many more.
What is HTML Used For?
HTML was first developed by physicist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 1990 when looking for a way that researchers could share documents with each other. This was the foundation of the World Wide Web. HTML allows people to create and design web pages using elements such as paragraphs, headings, links, quotes, images etc. It is not a programming language, so doesn't have a dynamic functionality, rather it helps to organize and format a page. It uses simple coding to denote how each part of the page should look. For example, you could create a paragraph by placing the relevant text within 2 tags <p> and </p>. HTML is now an official web standard which is monitored and developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C