SGML was created by Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher, and Raymond Lorie in the 1980s. The first SGML parser was written by Yuri Rubinsky in 1983.
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SGML and HTML are separate languages. HTML was originally based
off some of SGML, with some significant simplifications. Since
then, HTML has grown separately from SGML.
Neither language is contained within the other.
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Standard Generalized Markup Language is the full from of SGML.
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SGML, or Standard Generalized Markup Language, is a type of
metalanguage used for document elements. It is used for defining
and tagging metalanguages used in specific documents.