Glossary term: HyperText Markup Language
The basic software language of the World Wide Web, HyperText Markup Language defines and places the elements of a web page. Originally based upon SGML, HyperText Markup Language was created by Tim Berners-Lee as the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (commonly known as CERN), a particle physics laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland.Usually abbreviated as HTML.