World Wide Web Consortium

@w3c@w3c.social · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2017⁩

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, to develop interoperable standards to lead the Web to its full potential.

We are an international multi-stakeholder community where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to build a Web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

Please be more curious than critical. Your interactions go to real people who care and do their best 🙏

35 years ago today, on 6 August 1991, @timbl shared about a project he called WorldWideWeb.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system... Try it"
w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991

Thank you Tim and thank you to everyone who has helped make the web an open, powerful global information sharing system for all.
#WebAnniversary #WebHistory

historic image of Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Text: "Try it." Sir Tim Berners-Lee introducing the web to the world, 6 August 1991"
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