What is html?

I was taught what was html and how to create one by my teacher. At first, I was very confused and could not understand what was the logic of html. The tags required to create a webpage were just mind-boggling and there were just too many of them.The tags were actually for expressing how we want the words to appear on our html. Fortunately, our teacher gave us some websites to visit and videos to watch. Our teacher also very patient with us and explained it to those who did not understand. In a nutshell, we learned how to create a html using notepad in just a week! For those who would like to know how to create your very own webpage, you can watch a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_5WSp530SA There are actually three parts to it and all of them are available on youtube.