@Annbass

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Formerly archaeologist, teacher, hippie, secretary, Zen student, computer person, geek cheerleader. Now a retired free agent; still curious about most things. Based in Seattle; love travel, languages, people from other places. Collaboration, cooperation, consensus, progressive politics, watercolor, family and friends warm my soul.
I am tickled to see this bit of web trivia listed in @TheSeattleTimes “Today in History”. I represented Boeing to the #WorldWideWebConsortium (#W3C) for years. That international Web standards org was made possible because @timbl and @CERN generously gave the initial web code to the world for free — apparently on April 30, 1993. Many of my friends here are from that connection. I am deeply grateful for that experience. And of course that we have the Web!
APRIL 5: We’re uniting to say Hands Off! and fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join our national day of action: http://handsoff2025.com
Hands Off!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands Off!

Hands Off!
Your energy during this congressional recess is off the charts. Let’s keep the momentum going: https://indivisible.org/muskorus
April Recess Toolkit

Indivisible
In 1993 I told my boss I was bored; needed a new subject. 6 months later she said, “I need to support something called the World Wide Web & Mosaic. Don’t know what it is — check it out.” I came back, “It’s very neat. Won’t last 6 months, but I need something new to do.” Joe Meadows & I brought the web into Boeing (gradually with many others). We joined the W3C early, which now is 30! I am deeply grateful for such luck. Huge congrats to the W3C for decades of important work. @w3c @W30C

#AboutW3C

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 )

Version with audio description:

W3C 30th anniversary clip Audio Description

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

YouTube

📣Find out what other W3C Groups or areas are up to:

@w3cdevs developers relations
@w3cx training
@wai Web Accessibility Initiative #a11y
@webi18n Internationalization of the Web #i18n
@wot Web of Things #wot
@tag Technical Architecture of the Web
@ab W3C Advisory Board
#FediFollows

#introduction

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.

https://www.w3.org/

W3C Team, September 2024

And yes, proud to be latino and to advocate for more latinos in tech. En la @w3c tambien se habla español.

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.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/

Mission

We are guided in everything we do by a simple and clear mission. Every project and partnership we do is evaluated against it. “The Social Web Foundation’s mission is a growing, healthy,…

Social Web Foundation

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 […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

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 proto…

Social Web Foundation