World Wide Web Consortium

Also known as W3C, WWWC

main international standards organization for the World Wide Web

AI overview

The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international organization that sets technical standards for how the World Wide Web works. It matters because these standards help ensure that websites and web technologies function consistently and compatibly across different browsers and devices worldwide.

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Within Vinony's link graph, World Wide Web Consortium is referenced by 1,262 other articles, and connects out to MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cascading Style Sheets and Q2078.

The entry is geolocated on the map in MA.

It sits within the topics American organizations established in 1994, Internet Standard organizations and Organizations based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Its subject is documented across 69 Wikipedia language editions.

Research organization · ROR

Type: Other
Founded: 1994
Location: Cambridge, United States
Also known as: W3C
Status: Active

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Official website

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

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Wikidata facts

Employees: 52
Official website: www.w3.org/ja
Motto: Un seul web partout et pour tous

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Commons category: W3C
inception: 1994-10-01
short name: W3C
official blog URL: www.w3.org/blog
social media followers: 29962
email address: mailto:[email protected]
terms of service URL: www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/ipr-notice-20021231
Mastodon instance URL: w3c.social

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Encyclopedic overview

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in the development of technical standards for the World Wide Web. As of March 2026, W3C has 331 members. The organization has been led by CEO Seth Dobbs since October 2023. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “World Wide Web Consortium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.