W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
- Mission: "Leading the Web to its full
potential"
- What we do:
- Develop technical standards for how the Web operates
- Publish the results as "Recommendations" (40 to date)
- Develop software to demonstrate our standards
- History:
- Started by Tim Berners-Lee in fall 1994 at MIT
- Expanded to Europe (INRIA) in 1995
- Expanded to Asia (Keio) in 1996