World Wide Web is a standard maintained by

Question

World Wide Web is a standard maintained by

1. A. World Wide Corporation
2. B. World Wide Web Center
3. C. World Wide Consortium
4. D. W3C (Correct answer)

Correct Answer

Option D — W3C

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is W3C.

Key Points

• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the body that develops and maintains standards for the Web.
• It was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
• W3C standards include HTML, CSS, XML and accessibility guidelines such as WCAG.
• "World Wide Consortium" is an incomplete name; the recognised abbreviation and full title is W3C — World Wide Web Consortium.

Additional Information

• The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at CERN, and he founded the W3C five years later to keep its standards open and vendor-neutral.
• W3C maintains HTML, CSS, XML and accessibility standards, but it does not govern the internet itself. Keep the bodies distinct:
  • W3C — web standards
  • IETF — internet protocols such as TCP/IP
  • ICANN — domain names and IP address allocation
  • IEEE — hardware and networking standards such as Wi-Fi (802.11)
• Note the difference the question rests on: the Internet is the network of networks, while the Web is one service running on top of it.