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How it Starts

The first HTML tag you should know is, rather ironically, the tag which denotes the beginning of HTML. ;)
 

<html>
the browser knows to expect html in here.
...
</html>

HTML closing tags contain a forward slash (the one on the ? key).

Note: Good editors have, among other things, syntax highlighting. Highly recommended.