Greeting Card

Greetings from Viorel Ghelbert

Happy Anniversary, W3C!

Without your effort, the Web definitely wouldn't be as "World Wide" as we know it today.

For this reason I'd like to express my admiration and an infinite gratefulness for everything that you've done for the last 10 years as well as for everything that you will accomplish in the future (and I know you will).

As to "Leading the Web to Its Full Potential" - in my humble opinion - you're on the right path.

Just keep it up!

Sincerely,

Anonymous greeting

sinceres souhaits de succes continus

pour W3C ....

Happy 10th birthday

The W3C is growing and heading toward adolescence, it just goes to show how young the web really is. The growth has been fast and unimaginable just a few years ago, here is to another 10 years!!!!

Happy 10th W3C

Re: Happy 10th birthday

w3c 为互联网的发展作出了巨大的贡献。她在互联网开始兴起时就成立了。一直致力于互联网技术的不断发展，对互联网的普及有着无法替代的作用。

yongchuan,wang bianma2003@yahoo.com.cn, sent on Fri, 31 Dec 2004

Web is Changing Me

Kind Attn:W3C

Many thanks to Tim Berners-lee creating such an easy interconnect tool as WWW, to all the participants "to lead the web to its full potential".

I'm from a backward rural area in China, where simple web techniques are suitable to change the traditional chalk+plus+blackboard teaching method. It's regetful that although W3C has walked through ten years, quite a lot of teachers in junior and senior schools in China don't benefit from resources linked together, or even do not touch a computer.

It happened one day W3.org was searched, where richness shocked me,and especially the tutorials,I think, concise, authentic, easy to understand, are the very things for me and educators from China rural regions. I have a resolution in 2005 as a volunteer to translate some essays in to Chinese in W3C website.

Best regards,

Frank Lee

A Decade Without Peers

I've enjoyed the Internet and all its glory of potential from early in my military days during its infancy when it was not yet the WWW. As a want-to-be web designer in more recent times, I've found W3C to be the premier source for information, resources, and yes, humility. As W3C marks this occasion, may we all be grateful for thier continued diligence in quality web surfing experiences.

W3C is peerless! Happy Birthday!

Congratulations!

Happy Birthday and Congratulations on the excellent work of the team who makes the greatest invention of our time move forward, hopefully for the best of mankind! KNOWLEDGE is for SHARING!

A humble WWW user, sent on Wed, 29 Dec 2004

Greeting from SERGE MANCINI

Je souhaite mes meilleurs voeux à W3C pour cette nouvelle année !

Happy Birthday from Southbourne Internet / SONET

Thanks for guidance and direction. To anotehr 10 years.

¡Gracias mil en sinfonía plural!

¡Gracias, W3C, por materializar una simple idea que era un gran sueño en una tecnología escalable que nos mantiene unidos a todos en la Web. Espero que el Comercio Electrónico y su sistema de pago mejore muy pronto, pues en la República Dominicana es muy difícil tener una tarjeta de crédito internacional o pagar en dólares. ¡Gracias, Tim Berners-Lee, en sinfonía plural! Cristorly

A Decade in Information

Happy birthday, W3C!

You all have done a great job over the past 10 years, making advances in information technologies that are now essential for what the WWW is today. I wish I could have been with you all from the beginning, but alas, I was only 5, haha. Best wishes, and looking forward to the next 10 years.

A teenage web designer,

Adam Tanner

Another 10000000 yrs

Hai,

Whish u another 10000000 yrs

Re: Another 10000000 yrs

hi hows you wish you a very very happy birth day. may you live hundred an hundred years.......

Aman Deep deep_justdeep@yahoo.com, sent on Tue, 21 Dec 2004

Happy Birthday To You!

Happy Birthday To You!

Happy Birthday To You!

Happy Birthday, Dear W3C!

Happy Birthday To You!

And Many More!

:)

Thanks for all the help...

Maybe big companies will try your validator sometime soon or something...

Congratulations!!

The first decade of W3 and the Web has been simply great. Let us now move on

to weave the Semantic Web and create a truly meaningful, contextual and dynamic web experience for the world at large.

Happy Birthday!!

Its really a long and successfull journey....its happy birthday not only to W3C but to all the people using internet. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOLKS!!

Hartelijke gelukwensen.

Ook vanuit België willen we niet achterop blijven. ISOC Belgium wenst W3C dan ook alle wind in de zeilen voor de komende 10 jaar. De eerste 10 jaar waren zeker vruchtbaar en hebben aangetoond dat W3C nog meer present zal moeten zijn, en nog strikter naar standaarden zal moeten streven.

Happy Birthday From Bahriasoft.

Bahriasoft send wished to the administration and the whole team for making w3c, such a huge resource for web-developers and students for information and training. May God bless you with more capabilities and courage to make www a good and easy way for development and access of information.

Happy 10th Anniversary w3c.

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Bahriasoft - We Make IT Happen!

Majid Saeed Khan

Software Engineer

Phone: [USA: 1866-9551613,PAK: 0300-9551613]

www dot bahriasoft dot com

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Impressive!

I first saw web pages in 1994, mostly from CERN and other scientific institutes, and thought : "how boring". Absolutely no insight into the future did I have that day.

Well, 10 years on I'm impressed. Thanks a heap, people.

Auguri da Firenze!

Un grande abbraccio a Tim e tutti coloro che hanno creduto in un WEB democratico, indipendente, integro.

Francesco Bellini

Visual Communication

Communication Across Cultures

Congratulations on ten years. I hope that we can help the Internet grow to foster communication between nations and across cultures.

With best wishes,

Maurice Laurence, Jr.

Congratulations!

I will pleasure to congratulate you on this great day becuase you people have done so much for the world as compared to those who just bring the disastor for the man kind and i hope you will continue your struggle on the same pace to work for us and for your selves

We are all with you in this struggle witha humble offer from a Third World nation

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Alles Gute zum 10. Geburtstag.

Mögest Du ewig leben.

WOW 10 years...

What can I say, without guys like you, there wouldn't be guys like us writing about you......get the picture???

What an achievment....I look forward to the next ten years. May they be as informative as the last ten.

Keep up the excellent work.

Ti6er2

Greeting from Øyvind Olsholt

Happy anniversary, W3C! In Norway too we are very happy with the work done. Let's hope the big commercial companies pay more attention to the W3C-standards in the future!

Greeting from Fang Liu

Congratulations for your 10 years.

You have beening done a great work.

Congratulations

Congratulations and Happy Birthday.

Many thanks for all your hard work.

W3C Worked Well (WWW)

Cheers

Paul

Greeting from Dina

Happy 10th Birthday!

Good job!

You've done a good job keeping the web together so far!

Be careful not to go too mad with all the new standards though!

Congratulations

We have come a long way in this time and just to say congratulations.

Great Job!

Thanks for helping to empower a new generation. Change can happen so quickly with the power of the web, and it can really level the playing field. Thanks for your leadership in steering this powerful tool.

Youv'e come a long way baby!

I love the way you guys are making this thing work and also hope that in the next 20 years you guys at the Consortium will be shakin it even better(Just kidding)!

What I meant to say,was you have come a long way baby(W3C)!!!

Gracias!

Thanks for bringing us all into WWW!

TN

Greeting from Andy

Congratulations - we've come a long way in ten years

Superbe travail !

Félicitations pour ce superbe travail accompli !

Dankbare beste Wünsche an das W3C Team !

Danke für die akribische Umsetzung Ihrer Vision, die es uns Nutzern so einfach macht, an dem Netz etwas mit zu stricken.

Vielleicht ist in 10 Jahren das Semantic Web genauso einfach zu nutzen wie das heutige.

Jedenfalls beste Wünsche dafür

Congrats

Congratulations for your 10 years and thanks for all your hard work!

Buon Compleanno

I'd like to wish a happy 10th anniversary to the W3C.

All the best for what's still there to do!

Happy Birth Day !

Happy 10th Birth Day !

I hope in the coming years W3C's standards would be adopted more rapidly.

Wish W3C good luck in the next 10 years.

Thanks

The thinking world, present and future, owes an incredible debt of gratitude to the geniuses of 3w.org for keeping the engines of the internet running so smoothly. Thanks for the discipline and commitment. The world is a far more informed and interesting place to live in as a result.

Bill.

keep it up

My God always strenthen u

Happy birthday!

Happy 10th birthday, W3C - congratulations to all of you for making it this far! May your future be deeply intertwingled.

To the next 10 years

Congratulations to all involved with W3C. The web would be a much easier place to visit if more people followed your extensive (or extensible!) good works.

Remember to close those tags, people.

Cheers,

Ste Andreassen

Thank you W3C!

Thank you guys! I wish you all the best! Long live the standards! :)

ceo [at] vadikom [dot] com

Well done

Congratulations for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Happy Birthday

A great deal has been achieved in ten years. Perhaps we can begin the next ten years by embracing the principles of xforms and by introducing the principles of xml coding into the education system at an early level. Coding for kids.

Thank You

Sir Berners-Lee,

I would like to thank you and the w3c for w3c.org. It has proved to be an invaluable resource to my career as a programmer. The documentation is impeccable, and has been relied upon to ensure correct and reliable operation of our coding with regard to CGI, html and HTTP, often on a daily basis.

Here's to another 10 years of stewardship and guidance. I honestly can't see how the www would operate without standards, documentation of those standards, and ready availability of the information organized and provided by the w3c. All of the accolades the w3c is recieving, on this 10th anniversary, cannot possibly illustrate the true importance and positive impact the w3c has had on the lives of hundreds of millions of people including myself. Most people don't know who the w3c is, yet unknowingly benefit from the quiet pursuit of your work, in their daily lives.

Thank you for the internetwork's information standard as we know it today. The internetwork's capability to provide useful information to anyone with a browser or other standards based network client is largely due to the efforts of you and your organization. It's been a very bumpy road, I am sure, but the perseverence of you and the w3c has and will continue to pay off, more and more every year, with each new user.

Here's to many returns.

Cheers and Happy 10th Anniversary,

Neil Davis

well done~!

congratulations ~!

Happy birthday W3C~!

You did a good job in the past 10 years.

Hope you can make a better future!

Congratulations to the first step !

Congratulations to the first step of human digital revolution! The web is far from perfect and we have many more decades to come to make it better and better !

Keep up your good work ! W3 !

job well done

good work on ten years of pushing web standards. Now have a talk with Microsoft about IE!

Bakgat!

Congrats on 10 years of positive and insightful leadership!

Greetings, too, from South Africa, where we have also celebrated our Tenth Year of democracy.

PS The greeting is in Afrikaans - direct translation is "baked bottom" - but the intended message is, roughly, "Good one!". I look forward, with great interest, to the Semantic Web... ;-)

Congrats

Congrats on the web and good luck on what's to come!

Shubh Divas

That is Sanskrit for Happy day for W3C.

I am a grad student under TimBL 's supervision and can't tell you a better and more superb bunch of people than the W3C folks.

All the very best for the future

Shashi

skant {at} mit {dot} edu

Why celebrate at 10 yrs?

Hi,

I am one of the fans of open sources and W3C aswell. Eventhough W3C deserves celebration anytime, wait till 25 yrs and

then celebrate. Hopefully by that time

information world will be free of the monopolistic giants. (Or rather the giants will learn to coexist peacefully.)

All the very best to W3C and team.

JSS

Thanks for the standards!

You've really helped make things workable by pushing for, and developing, standards. Good luck in keeping standards alive in the future.

Re: Thanks for the standards!

I heartily agree and add second round of thanks to emphasize these wishes. The Validator is immensely helpful. An excellent job - well done! I'd like to see some other variations on the friendly validator from the larger community, maybe with a css inspector integrated into it.

Sue Farrell, sent on Sat, 11 Dec 2004

Re: Thanks for the standards!

Thank you for being a standard that we can all work toward for the past 10 years.

It's still frustrating to know though that there are some web developers and designers out there who insist on refusing to follow web standards. Is there some official title for these people? I wish there was some way to more easily weed them out. They're really frustrating to have to work with.

Stephanie strimble@gmail.com, sent on Tue, 14 Dec 2004

Thank You

Happy birthday, W3C! Thank you so much for helping all of us make sense of this wild and tangled Web we have woven. We all hope you enjoy many more years of productive and enlightening work!

Thanks the w3c!

感谢W3C，感谢所有无私奉献的科技从业人员。

Happy Birthday

Thanks for your help to light up the right path of web developments.

Greeting from Subhani

Congratulations and Thanks!!!

Web designers everywhere thank you

The Web wouldn't be nearly as great without you guys, and my job as a Web designer would be hell. CSS makes the world go rockin' round! ♥ ♥ ♥

Improvements? More CSS style elements with more control, standardize a vector format (could care less what it is, just needs to exist), and whip Microsoft in to shape about their damned browser!

Tthanks W3 for helping the world to achieve "NIRVANA"

Happy 10TH birthday from Tenacity Productions Ltd.You have given a lot of pleasure to lot of people world wide

Happy 10th W3C

Congratulations and Happy Birthday to 10 great and outstanding years of service.

Happy Birthday

Congratulation to your 10th birthday.

Wishes to all Corner & Building stones of WWW

Happy Birthday

wish you a very happy anniversary.....and all the best to WWW team.

The WWW team doing an excellent job.

Keep it Up!

rakshak reddy rakshakreddy@yahoo.com, sent on Wed, 08 Dec 2004

open、standardized

我们的世界只有开放化、标准化才能更快更好的发展。

Happy Birthday

I got a bike for my 10th birthday. It was just what I wanted. I hope you get what you deserve too!

Conglatulations!

WWW 컨서시엄의 10주년을 축하합니다.

인터넷과 기반기술의 발전에 더욱 공헌하는

멋진 W3C가 되길 기원합니다.

Conglatulations!

W3C's 10th birthday.

Happy Birthday!

Many congratulations on the good work you have done!! All the best on many more accomplishments in many more years to come!!

LMA, W3C from

very well done, w3c! and keep giving us the daily web specs.

Cozy

Happy birthday Mr. W3C

I think you've made an excellent job till now.

Under the xmas tree, i'd like to find a plan for more stable and robust Amaya.

Anyway thanks a lot for all the great things you've done (standards, guidelines, validator, evaluation suites, ....) !

Bye

What A World

I can imagine what a world it would be with out the world wide web and all the standards that have been introduced by the wonderful body of geneouses at the w3c.

I am very excited to see the web become more semantic. In my humble opinion, this is the next step to bring the web to its full potential.

Thanks Tim Berners-Lee and all the rest!

Felicidades!!

Por una decada de trabajo normando el caos, felicitaciones por el arduo trabajo que significa esta tarea.

Greeting from Michael

Thank You! You did a great job.

Greeting from Ed Daniel

Well done, the journey has begun for all of us and we're off to a great start.

I'd like to thank you all for your hard work to keep the W3C on course and in check.

Upon your work we build the prescient community of the future.

Thank to exist!

Thank to W3C to exist: web standard are possible for the support of W3C Members that daily works with the W3C team: all-4-web!

Greeting from Livio

sniff sniff sono commosso :-)

Many thanks for tidying up my code

Reading through the W3C pages makes my new projects much tidier. Happy birthday.

祝贺W3C成立十周年！

非常感谢W3C为人们做的一切工作，并希望W3C的新成就能够尽快成为新互联网的标准，给我们带来更好的网络。

Congratulations One and All

It has been an amazing 10 years of achievement with so many people giving so much time and so many good ideas. What more could have been done to show what can be done by willing people? well, let's hope we see in the next decade!

Tim, thank you for your excellent leadership.

Tanti auguri

Tanti auguri W3C per questi splendidi anni di informazione, formazione, tecnologia, supporto, impegno e chi più ne ha, più ne metta! Soprattutto per esserti dimostrato il punto di riferimento per molti sviluppatori da qualsiasi parte del mondo!

Ciao!

FELIZZZZ CUMPLEAÑOS

Han sido muchos los años de la web, y estos ultimos han sido marcados por un crecimiento acelerado en la investigación y el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías de la información, sin embargo creo, cási sin temor a equivocarme, que no hemos visto nada aun, y que lo que se desatará en los proximos 3 años marcara la siguiente generación de internet.

Viva el XML, y Viva el W3C!!!!

Por 1000000.... años mas de Tecnologias de la Información e Internet.

Merci et longue vie au W3C

... en saluant votre effort de clarification et de publication de normes qui permettent à presque chacun de participer à l'aventure !

Congratulations

To the Staff of W3C, and to Tim Berners-Lee, congratulations on a job well done in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. May your next ten yeasrs be as successful.

Greeting from Kumu Gupta

its amazing!

Kumu Gupta

*Sang national anthem at giants!

热烈庆祝W3C成立十周年！

没有W3C，WWW将会怎样？

愿她给我们带来更好的万维网！

To W3C members

Congrats to W3C members.. without you W3C wouldn't be successful!!!

W3C enabling high-technology evolution!

祝贺年轻人

希望你永远是年轻人，引领大家向前去

10 years of good work

Congratulations with your 10-year anniversary, which has avoided unnecessary chaos in the information exchange on the Internet and has brought us some very well-designed standards for everyone to use.

I wish you luck in your future standards design work, which will lead to more effective and flexible information storage and exchange between different platforms and applications.

If I would have one wish for your future work, it would be: Keep sticking to open, unencumbered file formats which you've done so far, without letting commercial interests influence the design process in a way that is unneccesarily complicated or ineffective. You've done great so far.

Regards,

Øyvind A. Holm,

Norway

Keep the Web Free and Open

Great work W3C, keep up producing open standards to keep the Web a truly universal information space. It's already changing the world more than you may even suspect! May open standards lead to Free Web, Free Software, Free Society!

10 Years? You Don't Look a Day Over 100!

In other words, it's hard to believe the W3C is *only* 10 years old. It seems the organization has been with us forever. Yes, I vaguely recall the halcyon days of the Web before W3C was formed. And I even dimly remember what the world was like before the Web. But HTTP, HTML, XML, and all the numerous other specifications that the W3C has brought to fruition are such a part of our lives, especially those of us working in technology.

Thank you, W3C, for all your labors of love over the past 10 years. I can't wait to see what your fertile minds will conjure up in the next 10 years!

Greeting from Perry Davies

Happy Birthday

and thank you for bringing the world to my

desktop.

~경~ W3C 10주년 생일 ~축~

W3C 10주년 생일 진심으로 축하합니다..

Merci !

Juste un gros MERCI pour XML et les autres normes ouvertes engendrées par le w3c !

מזל טוב

מזל טוב לקונסורטיום הרשת ליום הולדתו העשירי.

המשיכו לתרום לקהילת הרשת העולמית

Happy Birthday :-)

may your next 10 years be as good as your last 10 years.

Happy Birthday :-)

咱们可爱的W3C十岁了

W3C十岁了，这着实是件令人愉快的事情，希望又长大一岁的W3C能够给我们带来更多的惊喜！

Nooloow weligaa

Somali Language!!!!!

Hambalyo Hambalyo Dhalasho wacan.

Noolow weligaa jiroo ha jabin.

waxaan si wayn idiinki hambalyeynayaa

Hawsha wayn ee aad caalamka u qabateen

taas oo xusid mudan thanx more and more............

W3C is the hope of web !

W3C is the hopeness of web,chinese web designer will be following W3C.

DIV & CSS must be ameliorated !

Cong's W3C for your 10th Anniversary

Great and thanks for your existence. You did a great technological job of bringing together the whole world into one small and manegeable village.

Keep it Up!!!

Congratulations on your Ten Year Success Story!

Thanks for your hard work over the early years of the Web. I appreciate that I have access to such genuises. Using your validation tools and reading the standards reports have increased my own intelligence. And for that, I am truly grateful! Please continue making the Web better.

Happy Birthday

Thank you very much for your hard works!

Troppo poco ....

There are no extra word to celebrate the 10th birthday. Greetings to all the people that is supporting the activities of the consortium... And greeting to us 'cause those people is really important for the web community.

Parabéns!

Parabéns pelo feito tecnológico!

Passaram 10 anos e a revolução ainda está no início.

(I know that this isn't in English, but Portuguese language wasn't available on the submition form.)

Anonymous greeting

Thanks for offering both technical leadership and a sense of community. You have done a great service in your first ten years. I hope you will continue with the same enthusiasm and success!

AÏD SAÏD

The titlr is in arabic (wriiten in latin) means Happy birthday.

Hope that you'll continue this big and important work,

Go ahead..

Froum Maya, Tunisia

Happy Birthday W3 Consortium!

World Wide Web -

What a metaphor for the true electronic revolution

What a commitment to participation and sharing, and

What a hope for the peacful globalization, that I am dreaming of.

We, generations of Computer Science students of the Technische Fachhochschule Berlin and me have been exploring XML-Technlogies ever since 1997 enjoying the reliability of the standards and appreciating the comfortable services of the most trustworthy consortium on earth.

Congratulation to your 10th birthday.

Many more years of joy and success!

Happy Birthday

Well done W3C! Here's to another 10 years of balanced guidance and suggestion to help the web be what we all know it can be!

Keep the ideals!

Greetings to the W3C, without all of us (webdevelopers), would be completely lost! Even now it's quite hard to code a page, every browser is able to show correctly (even if written W3C conform)

Thanks for your hard work.

Without you, we now - after the "browser war" - would have at least two completely different HTMLs.

Keep up the good work!

Greeting from Ziyad

The W3C is a very good example of an intelligent work between different teams from different nation, of color, of religions, thank you for this demonstration proved, and good continuation

ZR from Sophia Antipolis

NB:The date of 1st December is also the date of my birthday ;-)

Greeting from 杨帅

w3c十岁了，希望它在以后的日子里走了更好，希望他能给web带来新的希望！！！

Greeting from Han Steenwijk

Thanks for puttimg control over document creation and presentation in the hands of the user!

Long live XML, XSLT and XSL-FO!

Sustaining the W3

I find it re-assuring to know this organisation has been overseeing and assisting developments in the Web for ten years now. As new technologies will emerge it is imperative to keep perspective on the original goals and not let any one organisation or company monopolise its use, as this remains one of the largest threats to one of the last bastions of true democracy. Furthermore I hope coming generations will honour the guidelines set out by W3 as well.

Congratulations W3 and thank you for taking this responsibility so well.

Anonymous greeting

You're doing a great job. Can't image what the web would be without you. Thanks for the great standards and validation tools that I use every day at work. Good luck for the future!

HAPPY DELAYED BIRTHDAY!

w3c thanks for existing!

All the guys here did a GREAT job! Please go on!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Greeting from tobs

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, W3C!

Vielen Dank für die gute Arbeit. Macht weiter so...

Happy Birthday w3c

Well the first 10 years havew seen lots of chnages. Maybe in another 10 years the WAI will not be needed as the web may be accessible to all.

Happy anniversary W3C

Many thanks for all your hard work over the past 10 years.

As a web page designer, I have found the W3C Validators to be invaluable tools which I wish everyone used.

All the best for your future work in helping to reduce the risks and increase the opportunities of the Web.

greetings

greetings!!!!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch

Danke für Durchhaltevermögen und einen langen Atem. Es macht Spaß zuzuschauen, wie die Standards mehr und mehr Beachtung finden.

Special People

Congratulations to Tim Berners-Lee and all those who have been working with you!

You are all very special people! You are all gifted Leaders uniting the world. Congratulations for all the wonderful work you have done. Your work continues to make the world a better place. God Bless You!

Greeting from Johan.

W3C is TEH FaNTaSTICO!!!!!eleven!!1!!!!!!111!!!one!!

PaRTaY aT MY HOUSE!1

+1.

Happy Thank yous

Happy birthday. Your wit and generosity transforms the world.

Happy 10th Anniversary!!

祝W3C十周年生日快樂!

祝W3C十周年生日快乐!

W3Cに幸福な10周年記念!

Continue the great work! Leading the web to its full potential!!

Semantic Web........

This will change the internet (and everything connected to it) so much that its quite hard to imagine all the possibilities.

***Happy Birthday W3C***

Congratulations to everybody in this consortium.

Keep up the good work for healthy, strong and secure W3.

Congratulations!

Here's hoping that the next 10 years continues the innovation and passion stired by the first 10!

From 185

We remember the first conferemce

at CERN . Greeting to Robert Cailleau

and anyone else we knew

Love to all at MIT.

Reaching adolescence!

In ten years extraordianry things have happened, and we're still pre-pubescent. As the web grows up the possibilities of creating global learning communities expands beyond current imagination. So please keep the web as free and open as possible, and empower the global masses to learn and grow, not just spend and consume.

Nazdrovje!

Mille di questi giorni!

Long life to standards. Validate them all!!!

10 anos de organização

Os 10 anos passados foram fonte de muitos outros orgãos de padronização e os seus participantes também ajudaram a internet a ser o que atualmente é. Definitivamente meus agradecimentos a pessoas, universidades, emepresas e organizações que ajudaram a fazer o que a Internet é. Muito Obrigado.

Felicidades

Congratulations for your great work.

In my opinion, your are making the best work that can be done for the Internet.

As we say un Spain: "Felicidades, sois cojonudos!"

Happy Birth Day to you

I am very pleasure to send you this Birthday greeting coz I ussualy use this site to develope my Career.

so this diserve to Thank you Millions Coz we Know what you doing for us.

after that I am concluding my greeting

"Happy Birthday to You"

W3C Forever!

And ever and ever. You rule the true web semantics. Good job.

Un grand merci

Sans Internet, le monde aurai été triste.Sans vous,il n'y aurai pas eu d'Internet.

Encore merci

Auguri dall' Italia

Tanti auguri per un futuro tecnologico ancora piu' importante.

祝十周年

W3C の創立 10 周年を祝し、お祝いを申し上げます。

貴機関の一層の発展を祈念致しております。

W3C10

Happy birthday to you! Long live the standards and cross-browsers HTML.

The next giant leap: Semantic Web

Sometimes developments really go very fast. The Web is a good example of a rapid uptaking of new technology.

Still I can't wait for that next giant leap: the Semantic Web. Machines that really can communicate and act with the knowledge available on the Web.

Please go on with the good work!

Peter Willems

Happy Birthday

Thanx for everything!

Parabéns W3C

*Happy Birthday W3C*

Thanks for all.

Greeting from Andrea Crevola

Buon compleanno W3C!!!

Happy Birthday

Thankyou for all your hard work over 10 years, I hope that the next ten years are just as productive if not more.

Happy Birthday!

Look forward to 20th Anniversary

Wish your inventions persist in the century, even millennium.

Greeting from Régis Kuckaertz

Hi folks, happy birthday!

Thanks for the pletora of ideas being a continuous source of inspiration, thanks for the style and fine-grained grammar it's always a pleasure to read, greetings for the quality and the validity of your technical analysis; all this typeset in good-looking documents!

Now we are ten

W3C works hard and often hands in good work. But it will have to resist the temptation to rest on its laurels next year. Its work sometimes suffers, as it is easily distracted by some of the noisier standards organisations in the class and so needs to work on its self-discipline and concentraion. Its spelling, dress sense and general tidyness could also improve.

Effort: B+

Attainment: B-

Well done!

10 years of excellent job! Well done!

Buon Compleanno

Attenti, vi teniamo sott'occhio... ;-)

Complimenti per il grande lavoro svolto in termini di qualità nell'accessibilità!

And many more!

Congratulations on 10 years and best wishes for the future.

I'm most excited about CSS3 and SVG, which I hope to see widely adopted in future user agents. These two technologies will make vastly better interfaces a possibility without being locked in to a single vendor's platform.

The Web needs the W3C very much

The Web needs standards to follow, specifications to comply with. Without such, the web becomes more and more impossible to interact with, to work with. Innovation can not succeed without a normal, solid compliance and conformance with objective web standards.

Happy 10 years anniversary W3C people and I hope you will help make the web a better place for all of us in the next 10 years!

Take care of yourself,

Gérard

Congratulations!

Thanks for keeping the momentum going that will make the software industry and its customers' implementations an exciting field to cover!

- David Stodder, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Enterprise magazine

Long live W3C!

Happy birthday, W3C. Although I don't oftenly use the services in here. Most of the time I'm a lurker. Come to read and go away. I used W3C Validators yesterday.

Greeting from Slava Sedov

thank you very much for your job

Happy Birthday!

So, what happened to URNs? (I know what happened to 3D on the Web)

;-)

Congratulations, all! If you knew how many of your documents I'd used over the years, you'd probably send me and my fellow webheads a huge bill.

Danke W3C und herzlichen Glückwunsch

Hey, 10 years W3C!!!

Nero's Delight - 11 amateur musicians at the river Rhine - thank you for the opportunity to rock world wide since 10 years.

Keep on goin'! Keep on rockin!

Nicely done!

Perhaps the end of the next decade we will be celebrating the infancy of the new interplanetary internetwork.

Keep up the good work.

-randy

Happy 10th!

Was October 1993 when I first saw Mosaic -- made my jaws drop, as I had been working Videotext since the late 80's. . trying to model early Minitel work for information services. . the Web took it to the next levels. .

Happy 10th!!

Ten years of quality management!

w3c saved my mental health, not my marriage!

Re: Ten years of quality management!

hehe, maybe W3C didn't help (yet?) our "love life", but they have surely helped us going on the right path ;-)

Happy birthday W3C and keep up the good work!

... and if you're are planning on saving our marriages, I'd love to hear about it :)

AltBlue altblue@N05PAM.n0i.net, sent on Tue, 30 Nov 2004

W3C - Quality Assured

Best Wishes for Continuing Success from Vienna

I seemed to have missed the Marriage Spec. - for all the work on XSLT2 and XQuery. I hope that the quality of all will remain high.

M.Grün-Kerr

Altova, Quality Assurance

Margaret Grün-Kerr, sent on Fri, 03 Dec 2004

Wonder Working World @ ten

Bravo,

You guys deserve medal, but i don't know how to quantify the medal - for making the whole world communicate easily with each and one another. I say congratulation on this your tenth anniversary.

regards,

Toyin

Congratulations

Thank you for supporting me in my web development and providing a markup validator!!! Thanks a lot!

Cheers

Fredrikb

thanks W3C! C!WeCanCtheWorldWireless

Congrats to the creators and users of the Web!

Time to wish the WWW service !

The mother of the real IT revolution!

Wishes for a grand sucess from one of the users of the World Wide Web!

We love you!

Happy Birthday

Hears to another 10 years of leading the way.

Greeting from IX A Class "D-r Petar Beron" School, Svilengrad, Bulgaria

Great Thank for the most significant accomplishment of the 20th century which gave the world the unique chance of bringing together!

Congratulations to Sir Timothy Berners-Lee and his team!

IX A Class

D-r Petar Beron School

Svilengrad

Bulgaria

Happy Birthday,

As you came to 10, wish you to go more. Wish you long live. Having hope to see more.

remember when we called it Mosaic?

w3c has made the difference - from that first use when I realized I'd no longer have to carry around a TechManual - but could get my images online. Hard, imaginative, and collaborative WORK has matured 'the web' - many are to be congratulated!

Thank

Happy 10th Anniversary!

And thanks for doing so much.

Doesn't time fly

Well done to all at the W3C, 10 Years young. Keep up the good work.

Congrats to W3C!!!

Well done W3C. Those who are close to W3C and love it for its realism know what a great achivment we have from W3C. I wish W3C all the best and hope the show will be going on from W3C. Good Luck W3C!!!

Compliments!

Thank you for everything!

Good work

Massimo

long live w3c

long live w3c, wishly you are exists...

Many thanks!

Sir Timothy definitely should be nobelized, not only nobilized. For the accessibility, usability, and quality of X×W³.

Keep up the great work!

Linkėjimai iš Lietuvos,

Dear W3C,

Happy 10th Anniversary!

Please, could you also take good care of links and related activities in the future.

Many More Decades....

Long live W3C, Wishing and thanking for bridging non standard thought process to the best accepted and recommended practice.

well done

Your work is important; keep it going.

When I see an 'optimised for internet explorer' web page, I try to forward to the webmaster the url for W3C

Congrats on your success

Well done...

Congratulations for all the achievements.

¡Felicidades!

10 años ya...10 años que han pasado en un soplo y en los que se han conseguido grandes avances. Aún así creo que la etapa más apasionante de la Web está aún por llegar. Con el trabajo y el esfuerzo de todos superaremos con éxito los retos y obstáculos que quedan por salvar, seguro.

¡Feliz aniversario!

Anonymous greeting

Isten eltessen sokaig, mig a fuled le nem er a bokadig!

Greetings from Hungary!

Come join us!

My gratitude for the dedication, hard work, creativity, and commitment of W3C staff and participating members. My time working with you has been the most interesting, challenging, and fun of my career. This is a very impressive organization, with an amazing group of people!

I encourage companies and people all over the world to get involved. If YOU are 'in the room', you can ensure your concerns and ideas about new web technologies are considered.

We've come a long way, but there is so much more to do. To those who seek to undermine this work -- cut it out! A rising tide lifts all boats; get on board! We need collaboration with all, so the web will work for all.

Bravo on the past 10 years, and here's to many more!

Thank you!

Thanks w3c. I think a lot more has to be done, but the dawn of the first free non-Microsoft browser that actually doesn't play loose-and-dirty with standards and that just happens to be aimed at the masses (Mozilla Firefox) has made me hopeful of the work your organisation will mean much more in future.

I can't stress enough how Mozilla have made me want to work the web again after several years of non-interest because of Microsoft playing lip service to standards.

Thanks again for your pioneering work. May the next 10 be far more fruitful!

Cheers,

Bruce from Melbourne, Australia.

Thanks

Well done. Thanks for all your good work.

<amazing/>

The best way to show what human can achieve with standarization and collaboration efforts. Good for one, the best for all. Thanks w3c!!!

Happy Birthday W3C

Thank you very much for all you've done for all of us on the earth.

Except for your hard work, our lives should be more boring ones.

I guess much more hard work is necessary to lead the web to its full potential.

At the same time, I know W3C CAN do that, I believe.

All members

Congratulations to all W3C staff on an important 1st decade of work. The International WWW Conference series has been delighted to have W3C as a partner and looks forward to continue to work to promote Web research and development in the decades to come.

Thanks

Great job !

Yeah :-)

Liebes W3c!

Na also, 10 Jahre sind noch nichts. :-) Weiter so! Ich hoffe (für uns alle) auf weitere 10 Jahre sinnvoller Standards, unglaublicher und faszinierender Innovationen und Abenteuergeist.

Diego

Re: Yeah :-)

Bravo!

Shaya ShayaDareyu@aol.com, sent on Sun, 21 Nov 2004

Greetings from Sri-Lanka

Astonishing work...

Bringing order to chaos

Congrats to the W3C on getting to 10 years. Despite a lack of support by Microsoft's browsers, you guys have managed to become THE internet standards-setting organisation, without becoming a semi-fascist branch of the US government as ICANN seems to be moving towards. If everyone used your specifications the internet would be a lot easier to use. Rock on.

Congratulations on democratizing commuications, in all media forms (hollographic?) to all people.

The improvement options are:

1) A good universallanguage translator option that would sense your computer's language and automatically translate the text document without any effort on the viewer's part.

2) Keep politicians and consumption based/ value added taxes out of the internet.

Happy Birthday W3C

Happy Birthday W3C, Keep up the great work!

Regards,

Mike

:)

Greeting from Janardhan

Congratulations!!! Making Web life easier with all standards.

I alwasy love with W3C

Boldog Születésnapot !

Gratulálok az eddigiekhez, csak így tovább.

感谢～～

很感谢你们十年的努力，有了你们全世界的人们可以方便的上网查询资料！

希望下一个十年给人们带来更大的惊喜～Thank you

Happy TEN

The next ten should be even more exciting.

an invention worth a nobleprize

Ladies and gentlemen,

the Loerrach sunday newspaper had an article on chief Berners-Lee. Being a newcomer in the handling of www I am very impressed by the future promising possibilities of the internet. I congratulate you for the success you achieved. Sincerely

Joerg Waninger

Happy Birthday

Congratulations and many thanks for all your hard work.

十周岁纪念祝贺

WEB已经改变了世界，希望你们能把它变得更好、更简单！

Greeting from Federico Boschetti

Great work, w3c!

Thanks

Greeting from Pat

Congratulations and many thanks to be our signpost.

Many greetings from WebsitePat - Belgium.

Whoo Hoo!

Thank you for making giving me a great career, and here's to your many more, so stick around so the next generation will have a great thing to build on. Congrats!

Congratulations

You brought the world together and change lives. That's an achievement. Happy Birthday.

Stay WAI Ahead

I've had the privilege of working on the

web accessibility initiative from its start, in 1995. What a joy to help make things happen in advancing accessibility for all.

Greetings

Happy Birthday to W3C from the Southbourne Internet Team - thanks for giving the net direction and standards.

Congratulations

Congratulations on your 10th birthday and a job well done. Here's wishing you many more birthday celebrations. Keep up the good work.

Greeting from Florian Mastacan

God bless you :)

Thanks

The WWW has forever changed human society, and is still reaching for its true potential. Thanks to W3C for creating and shaping a vital roadmap to the future. Improve, Innovate, Inspire!

Nice One

nice one guys keep up the good work! making the web a better place for everyone!

W3C助我进步

福如东海，寿比南山。

期待标准全球化早日到来！

100 lat!

Thanks guys fo everything!

Nice job and Happy Birthday

Dear W3C,

Wish you happy birthday and make the web a better place in the future.

W3C十年，可喜可贺！

接触W3C的时间不是很长，也就短短几年。但是W3C给我工作带来了无限的帮助。

祝福W3C所有成员！

祝W3C十岁生日快乐！

Happy Birthday W3C.

W3C의 10주기를 진심으로 축하드리며,

앞으로도 무궁한 발전이 있기를 바랍니다.

Best wishes! Huge thanks!

Thanks for your work, thanks for your creativity, patience and endurance. >From all Ukrainian web-standards community I wish your more prosperity, evolution and expansion!

Hope and dreaming to become one of your affiliate members in near future. Thanks again and good luck!

Happy birthday W3C

With 10 years still a toddler, but without W3C the world online would have been a chaos of proprietary standards – impossible for "normal" user to navigate.

So from the cold north (Denmark): Greetings and all the best wishes for many years in the future.

Congrats!

I think your work is so important to the present and future of the web. Many thanks and congratulations! Keep working!

Thanks a lot, keep getting things better

A big "thank you" to every one who commited in making the WWW better. I hope things will get even better with your help ! Good standards for good communication :)

Here's to the beginning...

The Web has given us so much in the past ten years. Allowing collaboration, transaction and a dramtic change in the way we work and live. I am looking forward to being a part of it in the next ten years.

Special tribute to Mr. Tim Berners Lee, our founder. You may know me from Akamai as my company lauched their first Web site and creted their Corporate Identity. Thanks again Tim for giving so many of us the chance to impact our worlds!

10 Years After...

Like good music, the good stuff just gets better. Writing good specs is a tough job but somebody has to do it and with team effort the results improve with each loop. Well done! The next decade should produce even the yet unthought of ideas... like umm... mmm...!!

Well, until we get there... happy birthday W3C!!!

Here's to the next 10 Years

Happy Birthday W3C.

Thanks for all you have done.

And here's to the next 10 years :-)

Happy Birthday W3C!!

Hey...

Happy Birthday to you..

..Happy Birthday to you..

Happy Birthday to dear W3C

..Happy Birthday to you..!! :)

I wish you people all the best in coming years. Thanks for making web such a great place.

Once again Congratulations & Happy Birthday.

10 années de bonheur

Merci à tout le consortium W3 pour l'immense travail de partage des connaissances.

Je felicite Mr. Tim Berner Lee tout particulierement.

Je suis fier de participer à cette aventure depuis 10 ans.

Christian Artin

Long Live W3C

Long Live the Daddy of the Web!

Thanks for all your effort and hard work!

Greeting from Darkhan, Kazakhstan

10 zhildiktaring kutti bolsin!!!

Auirmangdar, tek alga dep zhure beringder!!!

W3C forever

Happy Birthday

Great stuff everybody!

I was only 6 years old when the W3C was founded. I remember first using the web on an old Mac with Netscape 3. There were less pictures back then ;) Nevertheless, I was enthralled, and will never forget that day.

May the blink tag forever rest in peace!

Anyway, thanks for creating CSS and other such methods that separate content from visual descriptions. In fact, thanks for everything. The Web wouldn't be the same without you guys!

-Lucas

so young!

Wow--it seems, to us youn'ins here, almost as if the web has been around forever: how did people learn things, quickly and on obscure topics, or communicate easily, without it?

And yet, it's younger than the current college freshmen, who don't even remember the Berlin Wall falling, much less life before the internet.

Thank you--it has made so many aspects of my life so much easier than they otherwise would have been, to have an accessible, universally standardized system for worldwide communication. What a thrilling time to be alive and learning! Also, thanks for saving so many trees and so much time.

As to changes, besides the obvious possible further improvements speed and reliability, it would be nice to see a standard for how recently a page has been updated. I also hope that more of the legalistic (eg copyright, filtering, corporate control issues), logistical wrinkles get ironed out, and that access becomes even more useful (via unbiased searches and such) and universal (accesible, available, cheap, language support...).

Many returns!

annag asdfjkl@mit.edu, sent on Wed, 01 Dec 2004

happy birthday!

we believe in the future of the web.

we believe in w3c.

One hundred of these days!

Happy Birthday!!

Congratulations for the efforts of everyone at the W3C. Your work implies a better understanding between people.

Thank you.

Happy Birthday, W3C!

Keep up the good work for years to come!

W3C is the best!

You've made science of interesting things!

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to you.

East and west,W3C is the best!

Happy birthday!

And we believe that--East and west,W3C is the best!

Happy birthday

Thanks for all the work on defining common standards. Long live w3C !

w3c kicks butt!

Happy big one-oh!

I'm profoundly grateful for the efforts of everyone at the w3c. I have been in web development since the dark age of non-standards compliant browsers. I'm so ecstatic not to have to write the same script for three times for three different DOMs. I love that I can say, nope sorry that - browser - code - script - whatever - is not w3c standards compliant, sorry!

Thanks for that!

-Amy

Bon anniversaire !

Bon anniversaire au W3C et bonne continuation. J'espère que les standards seront de plus en plus respectés, en particulier par l'enormes société qui produit entre autre un navigateur web très diffusé.

Greeting from Franco Favento (de i Favento de Trieste)

You've done a great work! Thank you very much ... I wish you other 100 days like this ;-)

Wooho

&lt;HappyTenthBirthday /&gt;

happy birthday

Hi W3C,

the web changed my live. i work as a web developer and try hard to spread the word of css and standards in my hood. i'm looking forward to css 3 and browser being built to standarts.

regards

pille

Greeting from xorld

Félicitations, déja dix années et surement beaucoup d'autres à venir !!!

I hope u are long live in the world

Dear W3C I am a boy form Wuhan hubei province china I love U just like my girl friend, happy birthday to u my darling :)

Great

Thank to you work we can say we have work. Thank you and another 10 years to go !

best regards

Denree

Greeting from Ryan Hayes

The immense alturism of the W3C has helped push the web forward in ways that ten years ago seemed unimaginable. Hopefully the next ten years will be as progressive as these last ten years have been. Cheers!

Joyeux Anniversaire

Joyeux Anniversaire à toute la grande famille de W3C. En 1994, vous avez commencé une aventure merveilleuse dont les rétonbées sont innombrables de nos jours. 10 ans ne sont pas 10 jours et mon souhait et que qu'un jour, on puisse ajouter d'autre zéro derrière ce 10. Merci à toute l'équipe.

Alexis Rigobert, TAKOU TADA

Congratulations from a non-technical user

Best wishes for many years of adding value to the internet. I'm an editor, not a programmer or computer programmer, but I do use your resources as the highest standard by which to measure all manner of Web issues. You are a wonderful reference point. Keep up the good work.

Congratulations.

Sonja Elson

Greeting from SchoolsZone.org

Congratulation!

Thank you very much for your hard work to come up with standards that bring the world together. The web is both a cost effective and very clean publishing solution for all of us. Even students in primary and secondary schools could now publish their work on the web.

Your work is influencing every one in many different ways. Learning is no longer limited to the classroom as the web now becomes the greatest learning resources. Organisations of all sizes including governments, non-profits and businesses make use of the web in many different ways. Both the intranet and the web become part of our daily life.

I hope in the years to come you will make the web even more useful and friendly. Your work on VoiceXML will make the web more accessible. I hope you will add skeletal strokes to SVG one day. I am also looking forward to the day when all of us could enjoy 3D on the web and when semantic web becomes part of our daily life.

I wish all of you healthy and happy!

Happy Birthday

My wish of tens of decades like that, since if you keep up this way next ten year birthday many dreams of Web people will hav already come true.

Ten Years - A Whole Life

Thanks a lot! It is very nice of you to give food and food for thought to the people with each new document and each new discussion.

Good luck and keep up the good work!

TEN YEARS!!!

Keep up your high standards. Tightly written, well documented code makes life easier for everyone. If the command line is the front line, then standards are

the armor.

Greeting from Fede

Complimenti per essere riusciti a creare un nuovo mondo!!!

Viva la W3C

Happy birthday W3 and thank you for standartisation this chaotic web =)

And also thank for Tim Berners-Li. You are great man! All russian coders thank you.

P.S. (I think that you may add russian to "Language of greeting").

You have made a difference

W3C Congraduations on 10 years on the positive role this organization has on our entire web world. I know I am only one person, but you have made an importance difference in all of our lives. I wish you continue success.

Tanti Auguri!

che dire? utile, comodo e pratico... altri 1000 standard e anni di vita!

Re: Tanti Auguri!

ten ten ten.........years gooooooo...

gino gino_bort@hotmail.com, sent on Sat, 30 Oct 2004

Happy Birthday W3C! And a big thank you!

Congratualtions W3C! 10 years is such a great milestone.

I have learnt so much from your valuable work, thank you.

Thanks to Tim too, great idea! ;)

Best regards,

Murtaza Walji

Re: Happy Birthday W3C! And a big thank you!

Happy 10th Dub Dub Dub Committee. Here's to an extensible future for decades to come.

r/ John

John R. Weiland WeilandS@adelphia.com, sent on Mon, 01 Nov 2004

Félicitations !

Félicitations pour l'énorme travail que vous avez déjà accompli pour le bien de millions d'internautes et pour le partage de la connaissance !

Continuez sur cette voie !

Ten years have changed the world

It is a great moment to see that something that has come up so short while ago has so successfully evolved! This is said by somebody who could - although in a very modest role - contribute to the origins of what we are celebrating now. I wish that the web will contribute to improving our world and will become more widely used in countries as that one I live in - Bulgaria - and where I teach the web now!

Ulrich Boes

URSIT Ltd. Bulgaria

Greeting

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to W3C! Happy birthday to you!

Websites cannot be without W3C!

Vivat W3C!

Vivant W3C team!

anniversery!

Congratulations to Your 10 th anniversery!

激情与畅想

今天我再次看完相关的资料，再一次为新的技术带来的革命而骄傲。感谢你们10年的努力和奉献，社会的进步会最终证明一切的

Happy Birthsday!

Happy Birthsday to you,

happy Birthsday to you,

happy Birthsday dear W3C,

happy Birthsday to you!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to W3C!

Congratulations for the ten-years work; let you do it ten times ten years long :)

Life-changing!

The work you're doing has changed my life (electronic engineer became school teacher and is now a web software developer). It's changed your life. It'll be looked back on as the one thing that changed more lives than any other in this century!

As time goes by, I'm hoping for better fundamental education so that people become more able to read a URL and alter some ordinary XHTML or CSS without fear or special tools.

Re: Life-changing!

Nigel wrote:

I'm hoping for better fundamental education so that people become more able to read a URL and alter some ordinary XHTML or CSS without fear or special tools.

I write:

What, you want to give everyone a free Advanced Computer Science degree?

Chris, sent on Tue, 02 Nov 2004

恭喜!

感谢你们在十年来的不懈努力!

Re: 恭喜!

恭喜web的领导者十周年生日.

Junke Yang yangjunke@126.com, sent on Thu, 28 Oct 2004

Felicidades !!!

Felicidades por su décimo aniversario.

El avance tecnológico de la WEB hubiese sido más difícil sin su valioso trabajo.

Χρόνια Πολλά W3C!

10 χρόνια W3C... 2 απο αυτά επηρέασαν τη ζωή μου και η πορεία συνεχίζεται. Ελπίζω αυτή η καταπληκτική δουλειά που κάνετε παιδιά να μπορέσει να επηρεάσει και άλλους και να υπάρξει μια στιγμή που όλοι οι ιστότοποι θα "μιλάνε" σωστά τη "γλώσσα" τους. Εύχομαι σε άλλα 10 χρόνια να είμαστε όλοι εδώ να γιορτάσουμε την ενηλικίωση ^_^ .

Greeting from Piotr F. Mieszkowski

Great thanks for all the hard work you have done during these ten years.

I have no words to say how much I loop up to you.

The Web and working with it can be something beautiful thanks to you and your work.

Thanks and regards

Carry On!

Well done on making some order of the web. Keep on - and let's hope that people realise that the semantic web is important to ALL business.

Looking forward to some great new developments.

I WORKED AROUND THE CORNER FROM W3C AT MIT; MET TIM ONCE

My work at MIT as a half-time Technology & Law Program administrative secretary to Prof. Nick Ashford and Group (including Caldart et al.) had me stationed just around the corner from W3C offices at the very beginning of this exciting Internet growth, based on W3C imposed standards. Tim Berniers-Lee came by on a visit from CERN one day, wandered over, and talked shop a bit with me concerning the future of the Internet. I put my two cents in, and think to this day I had an impact on "The Web". When I think back to my early days at University of Illinois, when I took an introductory computer programming class I really enjoyed (Fortran/PL1) I think I really missed my calling. But proximity to W3C was nice while it lasted. They had some attractive staffers, also. One female hailed from Newport, RI. Sometimes, I wonder where she is nowadays. Have not attended the Newport Jazz Festival once in my life, but maybe next Summer....

Greeting from Nick

Congratulations on your tenth anniversay! I have been surfing the web since I was able to hold a mouse, and it has been nothing but a pleasure. Without you guys' hard work, my world and the world in general would be radically different. The web truly has changed the world. Keep it up! Who knows how far we can take the web in this next decade?

VAMO LOCOOOOOOOO

AGUANTE LA W3C!!!!!! Mejor en manos de unos cuantos dementes libres sin causa que dirigido por las grandes corporaciones!!!!

Thank you!

I would like to personally thank you for the diligent guidance and tireless effort to enable the full potential of the WWW.

Keep up the great work!

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday W3C-Team.

Your hypertext-programming coding have helped me and millions of other web buildes. To day I bring one of Norways best free web hosting solutions because of this type of coding, server system etc.

Happy birthday!!

Best regards, Alexander Rajiv

Parabéns!!!

Eu gostaria de dar os parabéns pelos 10 anos da W3C. Uma iniciativa de ambito global que revolucionou o mundo.

Parabéns W3C, Parabéns Tim!!!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Your 10 th anniversery!

Thanks to Your site I have been able to create my own homepage in XHTML-strict and got it validated without any faults as well!!

I have put in a link to Your site in my homepage.

Regards, Maria

10 ans déjà

Ma première connexion à internet remonte à ça 10 ans.

Ma première page web, date de 10 ans.

Ma première job en informatique remonte à 7 ans.

Depuis environs 4 ans, j'essais de promouvoir les normes du w3c au sein de l'entreprise pour lequel je travaille.

Depuis 3 jours (merci Karl Dubost & cie), et pour au moins les 10 autres prochaines années, je serais un ardent promoteur pour un «nouveau web», un Web Sémantique...

Bonne fête W3C! Félicitation pour vos 10ans, et la meilleur des chances pour les 10 prochaines années!

Well done W3C! Best wishes for the next 10 years!

Well done W3C! You have become a cultural resource for humankind. You have achieved this not through money and political power, but by the idealism, dedication, and hard work of your members. May it continue to be so, for in the next ten years you must meet the many challenges of making the Web a means of furthering knowledge to all of humankind, for in knowledge lies the hope of world peace. Best wishes for the next 10 years!

One aspect of the Web I would like to see changed - I would like the W3C to involve itself much more with the issues of Intellectual Property Rights, and Software Patents. At the least the W3C should provide an international forum for disussion of these very important, and contentious, issues.

One new feature that I would find useful - Each piece of software sold or published could be issued a unique number in much the same way that books have the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). If this is worth doing, the W3C might be the place to initiate it.

Greeting from Niall

Yay.. Happy Birthday....

Where is the back to top links? hmm... Standardize eh...

Thanks!

Thanks for keeping order in this caos.

Happy Birthday!

May you celebrate 100 more

Good, good work. We web developers owe you everything. It's like our dad be on birthday. Keep up the good work and congrats for your 10 years.

Happy birthday

Happy birthday W3C!

The Worlds best W3C - Happy Birthday from Scotland

Thanks for just being - we hope you stay young forever....call me any time kx

Re: The Worlds best W3C - Happy Birthday from Scotland

Obrigado cempre estar apoiando a internet, e evitando que ela se trransforme em um caos!!!

Parabens!!!

Nícolas ni.morto@bol.com.br, sent on Fri, 22 Oct 2004

Re: Re: The Worlds best W3C - Happy Birthday fromScotland

Obrigado Nicolas & happy New Year.

keith, sent on Tue, 23 Nov 2004

Happy Birthday !

Happy Birthday W3C ! Thanks for all that you do.

Best of luck in future years!

Greeting from fseves@fseves.com

Congratulations for all your work bringing common sense to the web!!!

Saludos desde España!!!

Fernando

Happy Birthday and many more!

Thanks for existing and for trying to bring light in our, developers, fuzzy minds. We wish that you policies will be further developed and applied on the Web.

Thanks for your power of enlightment!

Happy 10th Anniversary to W3C

I would like to greet the W3C on its 10th anniversary.

I wish that W3C will develop more standards to "lead the web to its full potential"

Thanks for all the code

Thanks for all your work, bringing wonderful science to everyone. Thanks for providing me with 10 years of exciting and rewarding work and the sense of being able to change the world. Its only the beginning and we've so much left to do. Slainte! (to your health)

Still serving an important purpose

I only learned of the W3C perhaps a year ago now, but have since become an avid follower of such a worthy cause.

The W3C serves an important purpose in recognising that as the capabilities of technology expand, so do the obstacles presented to many sectors of our communities. By developing standards that overcome these obstacles, the W3C ensures that the internet remains the inclusive global society it was founded as.

For enabling communication without borders, across platforms and without unjustly denying any section of the community, I say thank you, and congratulations.

More good years

Thank you W3C! And a very happy 10th anniversary.

Thanks -- again!

I would have never thought that I would have such an appreciation for the meticulous attention you have afforded (with such care and diligence ) to specifications and guidelines. I am awestruck at the depth and breadth of the hard work carried out by the members of the W3C.

Thank you! I hope you celebrate for the next 10 years and beyond.

happy birthday to all the family of WWW.!!!

i hope you wil be there always...in the next life as well...God,Alah...or the Atom creator bless you all...Yared from Ethiopia.

Thank you

I wish a good anniversary to the w3c. And a special thanks to berners lee.

Thank you for all you did and for what you gonna do ! W3 is so usefull to all people, now we have it we can't imagine a world without it !

The 3W change my life

I would like to thank you for the fact that Internet and in special HTML and CSS expand my limits as graphic designer and let me work in something "special" and rewarding.

Happy birthday!

The world changed

Happy 10th Birthday W3C.

10 years is a pretty big milestone. Given the changes that the web has brought about and still is bringing about I congratulate all of you at W3C who have stayed the course.

Keep it going.

May this be the begining...

Happy birthday...

Words are not enought to say what W3C meant to me... and maybe to the whole world...

It was... it is and will continue to be MY TEACHER... who teached me HTML... CSS... XML... MathML...

Will continue to be my colleague who always knows more that I do...

A model... that you aspire working with...

Thank you W3C for my job... although you never knew me...

I always knew that "in life you should do what you like... and you should like what you did..."

Now I can say that I like to make web sites... and I like web sites made by me ! And... will continut to make them XHTML 1.1 valid...

Thank you W3C... because you are ... leading the Web to its Full Potential...

Greetings, my dear friend

Please accept my hearty wishes for the occasion.

Age wise you may be only a 10 year old kid but act wise you have been guardian guiding the inovations in the Internet community. You deserve a royal treat. Cheers!

10 ans à sauver la santé des développeurs

Dix ans de travail grâce auxquels les développeurs d'applications peuvent dormir sur leur deux oreilles, sans cauchemarder sur les formats de données et l'emprisonnement dans des applications propriétaires. Dix ans pour faire migrer les données du stade de ressources comprises uniquement par les experts au stade d'outils au service des utilisateurs.

Et j'espère pouvoir ré-écrire une nouvelle carte d'ici dix ans!

Happy Birthday!

Thank you, W3C, for doing all of the work you do. If it weren't for the W3C, the World Wide Web would be in the Dark Age