What exactly is HTML and Why it is called so?

So basically, HTML is a standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser(Webpage).

Then, What is a markup language??

Let's understand it through a simple example,

Suppose I asked🙏 you to send your favorite color and your pet's name, and this is what you responded with -

Looking at the same, I got confused😕 about which of them is what??
So this time, I asked you for the same but with more precision...
and this is what I have got -

Finally! A clear response😌...

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So what you did the second time is what the job of markup language is...
We mark the text in a document to tell the Web browser what exactly is that text about
and in HTML, to mark those texts we use something called HTML Tags

For example -

The above code tells the Web browser that Mumbai, India is an address

and this is why,
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

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HyperText??

When HTML was first developed, they came up with the concept of hyperlinks through which a user can jump from one webpage to another and it was so revolutionary that they named the language after it.
and HyperText is just another name for hyperlinks