World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main standardization organization setting international standards for WWW .The organization was founded as a consortium to promote the compatibility of World Wide Web technologies.





Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director and the inventor of the World Wide Web, founded the Web Consortium on this day, 1 October 1994 - today we celebrate the 25th anniversary.





The consortium is made up of member organizations working together to establish World Wide Web standards.





W3C is also engaged in trainings , develops software and serves as an open discussion forum for web standardization.









Some of the Web Consortium’s most important contributions to the Web include:

Hundreds of open technologies that support search engines, social media, trillions of dollars of online commerce, and more than a billion Web sites;

Technologies and guidelines that enable people with disabilities to access the Web;

Built-in support for communication in many of the world’s languages;

A Patent Policy that helps guarantee that W3C standards may be used by developers without payment of royalty. We are a not-for-profit organization. Our revenues come primarily from Membership dues. Today, more than 450 Members from around the world lead development and implementation of Web technologies.

25 YEARS WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM









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