What is HTML? HTML is an acronym, it stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is what tells the browser program (Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer are the main ones) that this is bold, and this is italic, and this is teletype font. It also describes color, justification (placement) and links... and many special things like frames and tables too.

Do you want your own webpage? If yes, then you need to learn HTML, so you can write it yourself. HTML is a very simple language, with no objects or verbs. Just plain old descriptive tags, and nothing else. HTML is quite likely the easiest programming language, if you can even call it that, since BASIC. Markup means it's a very simple language, you could compare it to a rough draft or sketch language, not finished, not very detailed or refined.

Since HTML is so easy, only comprised of < and > tags (which usually dont show up in a browser, I'm magic) it will not take a whole lot of thick manuals and stuck up tutorials to teach you. So I'll just write one myself, because who else teaches kids other than another kid? So here goes, and if this like really stinks you can yell at meand then check out these links.