The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

W3C was founded in October by Tim Berners-Lee at the MIT Laboratory of Computer Science in collaboration with CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), where the Web originated. Its objective is to lead the World Wide Web, the universe of network-accessible information on the Internet, to its full potential by developing relevant technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools).

Technologies under development by W3C is transforming the relatively static Web based on URIs, HTTP and HTML to a Web that allows Universal Access (through different types of devices, to people using different languages and to people with disabilities), understands the meaning of the information and provides a trusted ...

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