World Wide Web Consortium

World-Wide Web, body (W3C) The main standards body for the

World-Wide Web. W3C works with the global community to

establish international standards for client and server

protocols that enable on-line commerce and communications on

the Internet. It also produces reference software.

W3C was created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) on 25 October 1994. Netscape CommunicationsCorporation was a founding member. The Consortium is run by

MIT LCS and INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where the

web originated. W3C is funded by industrial members but its

products are freely available to all. The director is Tim

Berners-Lee who invented the World-Wide Web at the Center

for European Particle Research (CERN).

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