w3c

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w3c - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  World Wide Web Consortium
  W3C
  W3 Consortium
  
     <World-Wide Web, body> (W3C) The main standards body for the
     World-Wide Web.  W3C works with the global community to
     establish international standards for client and server
     protocols that enable on-line commerce and communications on
     the Internet.  It also produces reference software.
  
     W3C was created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     (MIT) on 25 October 1994.  Netscape Communications Corporation
      was a founding member.  The Consortium is run by
     MIT LCS and INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where the
     web originated.  W3C is funded by industrial members but its
     products are freely available to all.  The director is Tim
     Berners-Lee who invented the World-Wide Web at the Center
     for European Particle Research (CERN).
  
     (http://w3.org/).
  
     (1996-11-03)
  

w3c - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  W3C
         World Wide Web Consortium (WWW, org.)