Some of the things "HTML" really stands for:

How this MIGHT look
Hi there! Maybe later...
How to minimize linking
Hot times, menu lovers
How the mighty laughed!
Hefty tomes made light
Horribly tedious, many levels
Harder than milking lemurs
Harboring too much lust
Hasten to multiply lucre
Hit the millionaires' list
Hand-to-mouth living
Hypertext, more or less