What is W3C ?

• W3C represents World Wide Web Consortium. Its is an international standards organization that develops protocols and guidelines to expand the Web.
• There are numerous locations of the W3C, three institutions are located at MIT which is in Massachusetts, USA, ERCIM in France and Keio University around Japan.
• This company is funded by many ways, one being the members who pay a wide range of money to have an opportunity to become part of this successful organization. Secondly, by the other organizations that associate with W3C who decide to support them. Some people, mostly members may also make donations of materials or money to help out.
• The internet and the web are very different. The Internet is the computer network which allows computer users to connect with computers all over the world and also uses an internet protocol known as TCP/IP. On the contrary the World Wide Web, also abbreviated as WWW is a computer system which links documents and pictures into a database that is stored in computers in many different parts of the world and that people everywhere can use.
• Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URLs, HTTP and HTML were refined as the Web technology spread. If it wasnt for this man then we may have not had internet the way we have it today.
• Basically the difference between open source and open standards is that open source relates to software. On the other hand open standards represents documents.