Got a few questions recently from a few people asking about
“What is html is all about?”
Here i found 2 videos that explains very well……

For those who may be interested in the basics of html,
the history behind and the development of this “language”
tool, which is a norm today’s internet world.

My personal comments are : These are Awesome videos….well basic explanations…

Kept very simple (didn’t worry about names, dates, etc.)
but kept it clear cut and simple.

SGML, XML and HTML Part 1:

SGML, XML and HTML Part 2:

H-T-M-L are initials that stand for HyperText Markup Language

The Break downs:

Hyper is the opposite of linear.
It used to be that computer programs had to move in a linear fashion.
This before this, this before this, and so on.
HTML does not hold to that pattern and allows the person viewing the
World Wide Web page to go anywhere, any time they want.

Text is what you will use. Real, honest to goodness English letters.

Markup is what you will do.
You will write in plain English and then mark up what you wrote.

Language because they needed something that started with “L” to finish
HTML and Hypertext Markup.
Because it’s a language,but the language is plain English.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language,
is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages.
It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information
in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists,
and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images,
and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags),
surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe,
to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include
embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers
and other HTML processors.


Read More at Basic HTML: Introduction

HTML Goodies - written in an easy-going style.