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The web's standards body started at MIT

Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 so no single company could own the web's formats The consortium began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with backing from the defence research agency and the European Commission, and later added hosts in France, Japan and China. Its working groups publish recommendations for HTML, CSS and XML, and browsers compete on how faithfully they follow them. Membership is paid, but the specifications are free to read and implement. It sits in Mondo's technology collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 so no single company could own the web's formats. The figure is taken from W3C, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a technology fact?: Yes. It sits on the Technology shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.