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The skeleton of every webpage, dressed up later by CSS and animated by JavaScript.

means A markup language that tags content so browsers know what is a heading, link, image, or paragraph.

from HyperText Markup Language, sketched by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991 to let physicists share documents across machines.

Not a languageMarkup, not programming — it describes, never computes.
ForgivingBrowsers render even broken tags rather than crash.
Living standardHTML5 has no fixed version number anymore.
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