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HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the fundamental building stuff of the Web. HTML is the document formatting language that is used to create hyperlinked Web pages. 

An HTML file is a basic text file that employs "markup tags" to indicate where text formatting such as bold and italic should be applied. A typical HTML file is stored on a Web server where it is accessed by a client using a Web browser. The file is transferred from the server to the client using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). When a Web client accesses a Web server, a specific HTML file is transferred to the client's Web browser. The HTML code is translated by the client's browser into a formatted and hyperlinked document.

Note that many of these developments were originally done with extensions to HTML. Most developers are now moving to XML (Extensible Markup Language).