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**HTML (HyperText Markup Language)** is a **markup language** used to **create and structure web pages**.

It **is not a programming language**; it exists so that the browser understands **what and how to display to the user**: text, images, links, tables, forms and other elements.

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### Main functions of HTML:

1. **Structuring content** - HTML defines where the headings, paragraphs, lists, images and so on are on the page.
For example: `<h1>` is a heading, `<p>` is a paragraph, `<img>` is an image.
2. **Creating links between pages** - the `<a>` tag connects documents across the network (hence the word *HyperText*).
3. **Embedding media** - HTML lets you insert audio, video, images and interactive elements.
4. **Working together with CSS and JavaScript**:
  - **CSS** handles presentation (colors, fonts, sizes).
  - **JavaScript** handles interactivity and dynamics.
  - And **HTML** handles structure, the site's "skeleton".

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### Example of the simplest HTML page:

```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My first site</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
    <p>This is my first HTML web page.</p>
  </body>
</html>
```

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**Summary:**
HTML is the **foundation of any website**, the "skeleton" onto which style (CSS) and logic (JavaScript) are layered. Without HTML, a web page simply cannot exist.

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