Hypertext Markup Language is the standard language used by browsers to display webpages.
HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, and uses tags. This means that in order to define
an element (something like a heading or paragraph), you use a tag - such as <p>,
which displays a simple paragraph. Most tags must be closed with closing tags - like </p>,
however some elements, like those for images (<img>) and linking external resources
(<link>) are auto closing: they don’t need a closing tag. For example, an image is defined as follows:
<img src="image_source_url">
HTML is closely linked with CSS and JavaScript; a comment in HTML is started with
<!-- and ended with -->.