W3C

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C
W3 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 Communications
   Corporation} 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).

   (http://w3.org/).

   (1996-11-03)