Core_Computer Studies : HTML stands for....

HTML stands for HyperText Mark-up Language.

To expalin it is best to break the term up and look at each section and give a bit of history as well.

Hyper: Computer programs used to move in a linear fashion. You worked one step at a time. This before this, this before this, and so on. Hyper is the opposite of linear. This language does not work in a linear fashion it is linked information.

This means that it allows a person viewing the World Wide Web page to hop about and go anywhere, anytime they want.

Text: Text in other words English letters, is what use to write it.

Mark-up: Mark-up is like the verb it is what you do. You write in English and then mark-up what you wrote.

Language: Language for the simple reason it's a language!

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