Founding History of World Wide Web Consortium
Founded by Tim Berners-Lee.
Started design and development work in October 1990.
Launched in December 1990.
Incorporated as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in October 1994.
Headquartered in Boston, USA.
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Year 1 of World Wide Web Consortium
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Version 1 of World Wide Web Consortium (Software and Website)
DEC 1990
Stats of World Wide Web Consortium
1990 to 1993
1994 to 1997
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Full Year 1 of World Wide Web Consortium
Y1 of W3C.pdfOCT 1990 to SEP 1991
Extras of World Wide Web Consortium
1989 MAR.pdf1989 MAR 1990 MAY "Information Management: a proposal"
1999 OCT Tim Berners-Lee talks about the web
2009 FEB Tim Berners-Lee talk at TED
2009 NOV Oral History of Jean-François Groff
2014 NOV Birth of the World Wide Web
2017 JUL The web, past and future
2019 MAR 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web
2021 JUN Source Code for the WWW
Source Code for the WWW.mp42021 JUN Source Code for the WWW