Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor @timbl 🎊
We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet.
(It is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AA8EP5UPa-k )
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Hello! 👋
Meet the W3C Team https://www.w3.org/2024/09/w3cteam.html
We are a international public-interest non-profit where since 1994 the Members, staff and public develop open standards and guidelines for an interoperable web to connect and empower humanity.
Our focus: security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.
With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone.
We are happy to share that today the Social Web Foundation launched with a mission to help the fediverse to grow healthy, multi-polar, and financially viable.
We are looking forward to continuing to support the work that @evan @tomcoates @mallory are planning in the new non-profit foundation for expanding and improving ActivityPub and the fediverse. We are delighted that to the Foundation will be becoming a W3C Member.
Launch of Social Web Foundation
Leaders of the open social networking movement have formed the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard protocol ActivityPub.
The “social web”, also called the “Fediverse”, is a network of independent social platforms connected with the open standard protocol ActivityPub. Users on any platform can follow their friends, family, influencers, or brands on any other participating […]