What html

Answer 1

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web. Web browsers receive HTML documents from a webserver or from local storage and render them into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/whatishtml.html

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

Answer 2

HTML = HyperText Markup Language

In layman's terms, it's the barebones of a website. It's, as @ArtemisAthena456 said, the semantic mark up of a websites and by itself it looks very minimal like a word document.

I understand semantic mark up as meaning that it assigns roles and labels to parts of the page.

<p> paragraph
<ul> unordered list
<nav> navigation links
<div> semantic division
etc.