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W3C Celebrates 20 Years in Europe

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Published:: 5 May 2015

While the Web was born in Europe in 1989, today W3C celebrates twenty years of work accomplished by European stakeholders within W3C, the organization that helps keep the Web open, free and accessible to all.

The W3C European host was established in Sophia Antipolis, France, in April 1995. The first draft of the WCAG guidelines, the promise of the mobile Web and more recently the Web payments work were all initiated by the W3C Europe staff. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C director and Web inventor, together with a panel of luminaries, will share his vision of the future Web.

The event is supported by Inria and ERCIM, former and current W3C Europe hosts. We also thank Hachette Livre for its generous support of W3CEurope@20.

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