HTML – stands for standard markup language for creating Web pages.
HTML – allows us to describe the structure of a web page. HTML contains elements that tell the browser what/how to display the content of the webpage. These elements are represented by tags. there’s many tags for example , headings , paragraphs , tables etc …
Example :

HTML Tags
for HTML the tags are element names surrounded by angle brackets: < >
Example : < the tagname here > the content < / tagname >
The only difference between start tag and end tag is the slash inside the end tag.
VISUALIZATION OF HTML PAGE STRUCTURE

HTML versions :
| HTML | 1991 |
| HTML 2.0 | 1995 |
| HTML 3.2 | 1997 |
| HTML 4.01 | 1999 |
| XHTML | 2000 |
| HTML5 | 2014 |
CITATIONS : https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp , https://html.com/ , https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/html.htm