The acronym HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It's the primary markup language used to write content on the web. Every single web page on the internet has at least some HTML markup included in its source code, and most websites are comprised of many.HTML or .HTM files. Whether or not you intend to build a website is irrelevant. Knowing what HTML is, how it came to exist and the basics of how the markup language is constructed really show the amazing versatility of this basic website architecture and how it continues to be a major part of how we view the web. If you're online, then you've come across at least a few instances of HTML, probably without even realizing it. HTML was created in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, the official creator, and founder of what we now know as the World Wide Web. He came up with the idea of sharing information no matter where a computer was located, through the use of hyperlinks (HTML-coded links that connect one resour...