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World Wide Web Consortium
<World-Wide Webbody> (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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The main standards body for the WWW. 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.WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM ( W3C )


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World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. W3C has around 500 Member organizations from all over the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web.
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World Wide Web Consortium Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

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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.



World Wide Web Consortium Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). It is arranged as a consortium where member organizations maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the W3. As of March 2007, the W3C had 441 members. It is always open for new organizations to join.

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