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W3C Last modified: Thursday, October 31, 2002

Short for World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium of companies involved with the Internet and the Web. The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original architect of the World Wide Web. The organization's purpose is to develop open standards so that the Web evolves in a single direction rather than being splintered among competing factions.

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium Home page for W3C. Contains information regarding the organization and its activities. Additionally, there are links to technical reports and publications, sample code, user interface items, and interest groups. W3C addressing page W3C's overview page on URL addressing. It contains links to news and events, NCSA's URL guide, a glossary of terms, information on addressing schemes, URL documents, specifications, drafts, and reports. W3C FAQ Contains frequently asked questions about the W3C. W3C Technical Reports A list of all the current and future specifications of the W3C, including style sheets, CSS1 and CSS2. Yahoo!'s World Wide Web Consortium page Yahoo!'s directory of the World Wide Web Consortium. W3C's DOM site Home page for the World Wide Consortium's (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) activities. Contains links to the DOM specification, FAQs, and related resources.