What is HTML? What you should know about the most popular markup language on the internet

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and provides the backbone for the biggest websites on the internet.
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Now he wants to save it.

If you’re reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting. He’s the necessary condition behind everything from Amazon to Wikipedia, and if ...