HTML is the foundation of web pages. It stands for hypertext markup language.
As a user of the web, when you arrive on any page — like this one, perhaps — the process of getting there looks something like this:
That's why this page displays the content you're reading now. HTML is the language used to represent the various elements that make up this page.
There are so many resources on HTML out there today that I'm not going to try to recreate them beyond this quick definition. If you're new to the web and/or web development, I'd suggest going through a free tutorial like this one from freeCodeCamp or this one from Codeacademy.
This site was created and is maintained by Sean C Davis. It was designed by Matt Willett.
The stack is Gatsby, Tailwind CSS, and loads of other open-source software. The code is built, deployed, and hosted with help from GitHub and Netlify.
And here's a super important legal document Sean made up.