HyperText Markup Language, the standard markup language used to create web pages and web applications.
Acronym for HyperText Markup Language, coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. 'HyperText' comes from the concept of text that contains links to other text, 'Markup' refers to annotations that define document structure, and 'Language' indicates it's a formal system of communication with computers.
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