The answer might sound logical to you but all this time I thought the expansion was Hyperlink REFerence. My HTML education started in 1998 or 1999 from reading

The answer might sound logical to you but all this time I thought the expansion was Hyperlink REFerence. My HTML education started in 1998 or 1999 from reading a PC Magazine series of articles on how to program in HTML. I don't remember how I got the wrong info and frankly didn't bother to care about this difference but I clicked this article with a smug face and reached the bottom feeling childishly embarrassed.