This document provides an overview of HTML including: what HTML is (a series of tags integrated into text to tell browsers how to display content), versions of HTML from 1991 to present, how HTML works by using tags in a file with a .html extension that is rendered by browsers, common HTML tags like headings, paragraphs, links, and images, pros like wide usage and free/open source, and cons like lack of logic and unpredictable browser behavior.