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# of Web Servers
1991: 1
1992: 10
1993: 50
1994: 623
1995: 10,022
1996: 100,000
1997: 603,367
1998: ~1.6 million
1999: ~3.7 million
2000: ~9.5 million
2001: ~26 million
2002: ~36 million
2003: ~35 million
2004: more than ~46 million
2019: more than 1,717,077,725
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On the anniversary of the Web, a reminder: invented the Web and invented the Internet #Web30 #ForTheWeb
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27 years ago today: released the source code for the World Wide Web, developed by , freely available to all. Thank you CERN and thank you Tim.
cds.cern.ch/record/1164399
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Friends, support us to lead the Web to its full potential and build more Web Developer tools w3.org/support/
In the news: "Santander Deploys Ripple In OnePay FX and Apple May Adopt Interledger Protocol" paymentsjournal.com/santander-ripp "Apple, along with Microsoft and Google, has deployed the payment request API defined by the W3C consortium into its Safari browser" #WebPayment
Unique t-shirts for and (on the back "I didn't invent the Web" & "I invented the Web") #w3c20 http://t.co/F7ZKdNnuNM
On 6 August 1991 first invited the public to participate in the world wide web. "The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.” He added: "Try it”
w3.org/People/Berners
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🗞 W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on a single version of HTML and DOM
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Do you know why you won't find any mention anywhere on the W3C website of #web3? It does not exist. BOOM! There is one web.
Happy birthday W3C! #W3C25
Please feel free to share your #webstories including a photo of yourself, a screen shot of one of your first computers, early webpage etc.
Here is a screenshot from of his very early webpages
🗞 Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
We strongly oppose pervasive surveillance, and are very concerned by France's intelligence bill. w3.org/blog/2014/02/s #NiPigeonsNiEspions
#intro We're an international community where since 1994 our Members, staff and the public develop Web technologies. Our focus: interoperability, security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization. With your help, we make the Web work, for everyone w3.org/Consortium/hig
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"Web Payments and Interledger Protocol paves the way for Internet of Value"
"Through the payment handler, the API part of the Web Payments ecosystem, it is possible to pay through custom payment methods such as the Interledger Protocol." ambcrypto.com/web-payments-i
W3C's spoke with Coil CEO Stefan Thomas about the Interledger Protocol (ILP), and Coil’s vision of using it to support “Web Monetization,” essentially bringing micropayments to the Web as an alternative to advertising and subscriptions
w3.org/blog/2019/09/w
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We are not currently working on lightning/bitcoin in #webpayments at despite recent reports. Organizations should join W3C to help shape our agenda!
W3C would like to thank for becoming a Platinum sponsor of our upcoming TPAC meeting
w3.org/2019/09/TPAC/s
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It is our immense honour to congratulate named recipient of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award w3.org/blog/news/arch
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25y ago, the world changed - forever! How did you first came across the Web? How has the Web impacted you? Do tell!
Great to see a new browser engine being developed
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Flow is a new clean-room multithreaded browser. Today it reached a new milestone: Rendering full Google Mail. ekioh.com/devblog/full-g
The and the are pleased to announce that Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is now an official standard, bringing audio and video communications anywhere on the Web.
w3.org/2021/01/pressr
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On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee wrote to a newsgroup: "The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system."
He noted "Try it" and the world was changed.
Thanks Tim!
w3.org/People/Berners
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Happy birthday W3C! #W3C25 Today we are celebrating 25 years of the World Wide Web Consortium!
We invite you to join the festivities and share your own birthday wishes and #webstories
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W3C press release: "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation" "This new type of verifiable identifier... will enable both individuals and organizations to take greater control of their online information and relationships"
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Today with CSS Writing Modes Level 3 as an official web standard,W3C puts a stake in the ground for international writing modes, enabling text on the Web to be laid out horizontally or vertically, as well as setting the direction in which lines are stacked w3.org/blog/news/arch
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30 years ago this week: deployed the first web browser/editor "WorldWideWeb." Access was possible to hypertext files, CERNVM "FIND", and Internet news articles
w3.org/History.html
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What a milestone! Since its start, October 1st 1994, W3C has published 400 Recommendations (and more are on the way!) w3.org/2002/01/tr-aut Together we are creating the building blocks, and future, of the Web
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<link rel=stylesheet> was completely obvious at the time, with <link> for external resources that apply to the whole document (copyright, parent document, alternative formats, translations, style sheets); <style src="…"> was never discussed. (1/2)
On 6 August 1991 posted information about his WorldWideWeb project to the public and introduced the Web to the world.
“Try it“, Tim noted in his message and since then billions of people have. #WebHistory
WebAssembly Core Specification is now an official standard, launching a powerful new language for the Web. WebAssembly is a safe, portable format designed for compact representation of code on modern processors including in a web browser. #WASM w3.org/blog/news/arch
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Payment Request API now a Candidate Rec and being implemented in all major browsers w3.org/2017/09/paymen #webpayments
26 years ago on 1 October 1994, W3C was founded by to lead the Web to its full potential. Thank you to Tim, our Members (some of whom have been with us from the beginning), and all in our community for creating a Web that works, for everyone. Happy birthday W3C!
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In 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded. #Web30 #ForTheWeb
The W3C leads the Web to its full potential by developing open standards and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. w3.org
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Today in 1994 "1 October: World Wide Web Consortium founded" We are turning 20 today! http://t.co/Iqvvb36ejA #w3c20
Thank you [ALT="Welcome to free, unlimited private repositories for World Wide Web Consortium organization]
"Shaping the Future of Payments in the Browser" Part 1 by "The Payment Request API can provide a better purchase experience by eliminating checkout forms. Shopify... ran an experiment to see if Payment Request was market ready."
engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineer
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W3C Invites Implementations of Payment Request API
This spec standardizes an API to allow merchants to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.
w3.org/blog/news/arch
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Interested in CSS and font-size value, font width & font style? You may want to check out CSS Fonts Module Level 4 w3.org/TR/2017/WD-css
🗞 W3C Invites Implementations of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0
W3C publishes "Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web" This document examines a number of potential solutions that allow systems to test for human users while preserving access by users with disabilities.
w3.org/TR/turingtest/
"RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method" by at "...removing the password is an important step in improving online security and making using sites and services easier"
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Ayup. It’s always “It’s 2020, how do I center things on the web with #css?1!!” and never “how are you doing person who runs the W3C account?” You deserve a break today.
W3C is pleased to announce the Immersive Web Working Group which will help bring high-performance Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) (collectively known as XR) to the open Web via APIs to interact with XR devices and sensors in browsers.
w3.org/immersive-web/
Good news! The Accessibility Guidelines WG has published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as a W3C Recommendation.!
WCAG 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible.
w3.org/2018/06/pressr
"A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords" This spec defines a well-known URL that sites can use to make their change password forms discoverable by tools. This provides a way for software to help the user find the way to change their password.
🗞 JSON-LD 1.1 Specifications are W3C Recommendations
The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Anchor Positioning. This allows a positioned element (such as a tooltip or pop-up footnote) to size and position itself relative to one or more "anchor elements" elsewhere on the page
📃 W3C Interview: Coil on Interledger Protocol and Web Monetization, by Ian Jacobs
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In the news: "MasterCard and Microsoft to Develop “Universally Recognised” ID System"
"Microsoft is actively collaborating with members of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), the W3C Credentials Community Group, and the wider identity community"
cbronline.com/news/microsoft
📢 Attention fellow web designers! We are going to embark on an incremental redesign of our website and will be accepting proposals. Watch out for our upcoming RFP.
W3C and finalize web standard for secure, passwordless logins. #WebAuth, a user-friendly solution to password theft, phishing and replay attacks.
w3.org/2019/03/pressr
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Excited by comprehensive documentation on #webpayments
developers.google.com/web/fundamenta
Proposed timing: 17 October, morning US West Coast
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We are happy to release a short video introducing Web Accessibility and W3C Standards w3.org/blog/news/arch #a11y #w3c Timed in recognition of #idpd, it highlights why accessibility is the right thing to do, how it is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all.
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Thank you from all of us at the . w3.org/blog/2018/03/c We invite everyone to join us in saying: #HappyBirthdayWWW !
The Accessibility Guidelines WG (AG WG) has published a First Public Working Draft of W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 which explain how to make web content, apps, and tools more accessible to people with disabilities.
W3C launches the International Initiative to make the World Wide Web truly world wide.
Learn more about the Initiative and how you or your company can support i18n at: w3.org/2018/07/pressr
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22 August 1991, introduced the World Wide Web to the world and invited anyone to join. His email included an understatement of understatements:
"This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the WWW project"
w3.org/People/Berners
W3C has elected its First Board of Directors. Congratulations to our initial Board: , Koichi Moriyama, , David Singer, Eric Siow, and Hongru (Judy) Zhu. Many thanks to all the candidates and to the AC reps who voted for them
First Public Working Draft: CSS Box Model Module Level 4
"The has published a 1st Public Working Draft of CSS Box Model Module Level 4. This spec describes the margin and padding properties, which create spacing in and around a CSS box"
w3.org/blog/news/arch
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There is controversy after a Member's objection to the #DID Proposed Recommendation (PR). Before more people jump to wrong conclusions: This is one Member's opinion. Objections are part of our open standards process w3.org/2020/Process-2 A PR is not yet endorsed by W3C.
(2/2) and the original <script> element in HTML 3.2 didn't have a src attribute. the REC for HTML 3.2 mentions <link> as a way to link to scripts, but it doesn't define any keywords for rel=.
Today's celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web google.com/doodles/30th-a “There are very few innovations that have truly changed everything,” said our CEO “The Web is the most impactful innovation of our time.” #Web30
Web a11y Tutorials Updated w3.org/blog/news/arch ... for Web content accessible and improved UX for all, w/ HTML5 and WAI-ARIA examples.
Did you know? W3C gives developers (and maintains) Validators and Tools including: HTML checker, Link checker, Internationalization checker, EPUB Check, CSS Validator, RDF Validator, RSS Feed Validator and Web Platform tests
🗞 First Public Working Draft: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
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W3C in the news: "WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard" by
"Today the W3C and IETF mark the completion of perhaps one of the most important standards during the pandemic: WebRTC."
The Web Payments WG has published an updated CR of the Payment Request API. This spec standardizes an API to allow merchants to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration.
w3.org/blog/news/arch
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The Web Applications WG has published a First Public Working Draft of "Web Share API." This specification defines an API for sharing text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the user’s choice #WebApp
Our website is one of the longest running websites in the world. Did you know is has over 2 million documents? As part of our website redesign, updated our URL strategy:
Today is #BlueBeanieDay, an annual international celebration of web standards.
Many thanks to all who help to develop standards, promote the open web and web accessibility (special ht (ha ha) to )
#a11y #webstandards
Approved: JSON-LD Working Group Charter!
JSON-LD 1.0 is an essential format for describing structured data on the Web. Around 10% and 18.2% of all websites use it due largely to its adoption as a recommended format by schema.org. See more at
w3.org/2018/03/jsonld
We are hiring!
We are looking for a new full-time Web Developer to develop and maintain Web applications (front-end development for w3.org, server side web development, usability design and testing) at Beihang University in Beijing
w3.org/Consortium/Rec
It's our birthday!
"The World Wide Web Consortium at 27: a guiding star for the future of the web"
As we celebrate our anniversary, we are grateful for the incredible energy and good will that the web sparks off!
We’re hiring! is looking for motivated accessibility specialists to join our Team. If you are (or know) anybody that might be interested, please send applications to team-wai-jobs@w3.org.
For more information, visit : w3.org/Consortium/Rec #a11y
We’re sorry if at times you can’t get to the W3C Validator, so we wanted to offer some personal validator messages for our community:
Your web pages look really nice!
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In interesting web history: yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Mosaic browser tech.slashdot.org/story/18/04/23
What was the first browser you used?
#WebHistory
