HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is a coding language that controls how a website is structured. HTML forms the backbone of the biggest websites on the internet, and is a basic part ...

HTML is not a programming language because it fails to meet several functional criteria. Nevertheless, HTML coding is valuable beyond that pedantic debate.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.