What does W3C stand for?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international organization committed to improving the web. It is made up of several hundred member organizations from a variety of related IT industries. W3C sets standards for the World Wide Web (WWW) to facilitate interoperability and cooperation among all web stakeholders.

What is W3C responsible for?

W3C sets standards for the World Wide Web (WWW) to facilitate interoperability and cooperation among all web stakeholders. It was established in 1994 by the creator of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee.

How did the W3C get started?

n 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the WWW Consortium (W3C) at the MIT, with support from CERN, DARPA (as ARPA had been renamed to) and the European Commission. The W3C's vision was to standardize the protocols and technologies used to build the web such that the content would be available to as wide a population of the world as possible.