Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

World Wide Web Consortium
     
         (W3C) The main standards body for the
        {World-Wide Web}.  W3C works with the global community to
        establish international {standards} for {client} and {server}
        {protocols} that enable on-line commerce and communications on
        the {Internet}.  It also produces reference software.
     
        W3C was created by the {Massachusetts Institute of Technology}
        (MIT) on 25 October 1994.  {Netscape Communications
        Corporation} was a founding member.  The Consortium is run by
        {MIT LCS} and {INRIA}, in collaboration with {CERN} where the
        web originated.  W3C is funded by industrial members but its
        products are freely available to all.  The director is Tim
        Berners-Lee who invented the {World-Wide Web} at the Center
        for European Particle Research (CERN).
     
        {Home (http://www.w3.org/)}.
     
        (1996-11-03)