As an expert in web technologies, I can explain that HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like `< >`). Here's a simple example of HTML code that creates a basic web page:
```html
My First Web Page
Welcome to My Homepage
This is a paragraph of text.
```
In this example, `` tells the browser that this is an HTML5 document. The `` tag is the root of an HTML document, and the `` section contains meta-information about the document, such as its title. The `` tag contains the content of the HTML document, which is what users will see when they visit the web page.
The `
` tag defines a top-level heading, and the `
` tag defines a paragraph.
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