One thing that everyone had right: It stands for Hypertext Markup Language.
It is *not* a programming language - it's a method that adds markup to text, no more, no less.
It can be compared to a Rich Text File or Word Document, with the difference that HTML can be coded by hand. An HTML document (like any other document) consists of "header" or "meta" information. This tells a program (the web browser) what to expect and how to deal with it.
The markup information in the actual document tells the browser to make text bold, italic, or part of a tabular range of data (inside a table).
The original HTML was nothing more than some meta information and the most important element, the *anchor*, which inserts a "hyperlink" (which allows you to click on text, and it'll take you to an other location) - and that's where the name "hypertext" came from.
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