Everyone who builds something for the web uses it but almost nobody talks about it. A couple of years ago it was hyped and people claimed that it could do all kinds of awesome things. Nowadays it’s excluded from a lot of job ads in favour of JavaScript frameworks, libraries and tools. But is it really so easy that nobody needs to really learn it anymore? Does it matter if you know how to use it or not? Is it true that nothing has happened to HTML for years now? And what about Hixie? This is a talk about HTML.