 What is HTML? Simply put, the letters H-T-M-L stand for Hypertext Markup Language. And in this course, we're going to teach you the very basics of HTML, so that you know how it works and also so that you can use it. Now what you see here is a basic HTML document. And as you can see, there's some unidentified code if you're not familiar with HTML. So what those symbols mean and how they work, this will be explained in this series. But don't worry, HTML is a very simple language to learn. And throughout this course, we're going to show you just how you can start putting it to use. To understand how HTML works, think of the Internet as the globe. This massive space where people and information are in constant motion. And we could think of web pages like virtual buildings situated on that globe. This is where HTML comes in. We use steel and concrete to give structure to those buildings. Well, to give structure to our websites, we use HTML. So this is why sometimes HTML is considered a structural language. HTML is not a programming language, but as we mentioned it, it gives structure. Now just as we might attach to that structure an electrical or a plumbing system in the case of a building, we'll attach complex web services like Google or Facebook. These incredible and very complex services have as their foundation HTML. This is why HTML is considered by many to be the backbone of the Internet. Why is it important that we know or that you learn HTML? Well, the world as we know it is and has been undergoing a technological revolution in which nearly every aspect of our life, whether it's our education, our employment, activities have all been moved to the Internet or uploaded or connected to the Internet. A quick Google search and you will find literally tens of thousands of jobs for people who know HTML. So if you want to remain employable at your current job, which more than likely will at one point or another migrate in some form to an online job, or if you want to find a new job. Now think back to our virtual buildings. We know that in the real world we use nuts and bolts to piece together these steel structures. But in the world of code, we use tags to piece together web pages, our virtual buildings. So in our next video, we're going to talk to you about how HTML tags work. The fastest way to learn HTML is to practice it. So the best place to practice your HTML is burntolearn.com forward slash HTML. Here you'll be able to watch each video in this series, as well as practice the code that we're teaching as you watch. So please visit us at burntolearn.com forward slash HTML.