Hypertext a means of connecting documents by text links
HTML
Hyper
Text
Markup
Language:
a language that uses elements, attributes, and values (markup) to construct and link (hypertext) documents for easy access and display
XML
Extensible
Markup
Language
a customizable markup language
XHTML
Extensible
Hyper
Text
Markup
Language
a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application.
DHTML
Dynamic
HyperText
Markup
Language:
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript combined to create dynamic (as opposed to static) pages
SGML
Standard
Generalized
Markup
Language
the mother language from which HTML, XHTML, and XML were created