Some history

• W3C was formed in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee
  • 1994: first “host” at MIT, Cambridge, USA
  • two more “hosts” joined later
    • 1995: INRIA, France
    • 1996: Keio University, Japan
  • 2003: European Host transferred from INRIA to ERCIM
• W3C was modeled after the X Consortium, but…
• … was more international from the start!