< World-Wide Web , body > (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).
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