Web page of a website can be designed using HTML. HTML stands for:
- (a)High Text Machine Language
- (b)Hyper Text Machine Language
- (c)High Text Markup Language
- (d)Hyper Text Markup Language
Correct — D, Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the standard markup language of the web: it uses tags such as <html>, <head>, <body>, <p> and <a> to mark up a document so a browser knows what is a heading, what is a paragraph and what is a link. 'Hypertext' refers to text carrying links that jump to other documents, and 'markup' means the tags describe the structure of the content rather than instructing a processor to compute anything. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN around 1989–91 along with HTTP and the first web browser, and is now maintained as a web standard (HTML5 being the current generation).
- (a)High Text Machine Language — Both halves are wrong. 'HT' stands for Hyper Text, not 'High Text' — there is no such term — and machine language means the binary instruction code a CPU executes directly, which has nothing to do with web pages.
- (b)Hyper Text Machine Language — The classic half-right trap: 'Hyper Text' is correct, but the 'ML' is Markup Language. HTML is read and rendered by a browser; machine language is the low-level binary code run by the processor.
- (c)High Text Markup Language — The mirror-image trap: 'Markup Language' is correct, but 'High Text' is not a term at all. The idea being named is hypertext — documents linked to other documents.
A web page is built from three layers: HTML supplies the structure and content, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) supplies the appearance, and JavaScript supplies the behaviour. HTML is a markup language, not a programming language — on its own it has no variables, loops or logic; it only labels parts of a document with tags. The page then travels from a web server to your browser over HTTP/HTTPS, and the browser renders the markup into what you see.
MPPSC builds this question entirely out of two swappable halves — Hyper/High and Markup/Machine — so the only way to lose the mark is to be vague about either word. Anchor both: hypertext is what makes links possible (the same 'HT' as in HTTP), and markup is what tags do. That single sentence eliminates three options.
- HTML = HyperText Markup Language — the standard markup language for web pages
- Created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (1989–91), alongside HTTP, URLs and the first web browser
- It is a markup language, not a programming language — tags describe structure, they do not compute
- HTML structures a page, CSS styles it, JavaScript makes it interactive
- HTTP/HTTPS is the protocol that carries the HTML page from the server to the browser
- Calling HTML a programming language — it is a markup language
- Confusing HTML (the page format) with HTTP (the transfer protocol)
- Falling for 'Machine Language', which belongs to CPU instruction sets, not the web
State PCS papers ask web acronyms straight — HTML, HTTP, W3C, URL, WWW — usually one per paper. UPSC asks the same area through people and concepts (who invented the WWW, what a VPN is). Memorise the acronyms with a one-line function for each.
Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?
- (a) Edward Kasner
- (b) Bill Gates
- (c) Tim Berners-Lee
- (d) Vinod Bham
Answer(c) Tim Berners-Lee
The same origin story from the person angle — Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and, as part of it, HTML itself.
In the field of Internet, W3C stands for:
- (a) World Wide Web Content
- (b) World Wide Web Commission
- (c) World Wide Web Center
- (d) World Wide Web Consortium
Answer(d) World Wide Web Consortium
Same corner of the syllabus and the same skill — expanding a core web acronym; W3C is the organisation that standardises the very language this 2026 question asks about.
- practice — not a real PYQ
HTML is best described as:
- (a)a markup language used to structure web pages
- (b)a machine language executed directly by the CPU
- (c)a database query language
- (d)an operating system for web servers
Answer(a) a markup language used to structure web pages — its tags describe content, they do not perform computation.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which one of the following is the protocol used to transfer web pages between a web server and a browser?
- (a)HTML
- (b)HTTP
- (c)SMTP
- (d)FTP
Answer(b) HTTP — HyperText Transfer Protocol; HTML is the page format, SMTP carries e-mail and FTP transfers files.