World Wide Web Consortium founded
1994 · Event
Berners-Lee sets up the W3C at MIT to keep the Web's standards open and royalty-free rather than carved up by competing companies.
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More from The Digital Revolution
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Google founded (1998)
- Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936)
- First website goes online (1990)
- Moore's Law formulated (1965)
- Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- Mosaic makes the web visual (1993)
- Apple II launched (1977)
Around 1994
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Crazy in Love (Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z) (2003)