World Wide Web Consortium is now a public-interest nonprofit organization

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https://news.mit.edu/2023/world-wide-web-consortium-is-now-public-interest-nonprofit-organization-0202

After 28 years of being hosted collectively at MIT and three other international host organizations, the crusaders for web standards have become their own entity. Many diverse brains make up and contribute to the community collective that is W3C, cultivating and setting global standards for building websites, browsers, and devices. Some of W3C's greatest hits involve making public standards for the technologies that underlie the web, such as HTML, CSS, and XML, which are so ubiquitous, they’re practically ingrained in the fabric of our daily lives — every time we use a computer or smartphone.

World Wide Web Consortium is now a public-interest nonprofit organization

The World Wide Web Consortium will become a public-interest nonprofit organization, after being hosted at MIT's Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and other academic hosts.

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