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Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards organization which oversees and encourages the Web's continued development, co-director of the Web Science Trust, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. [222] In 1994, Berners-Lee became one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. [223]
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet. [49] Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. [50]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October 1994. [5] It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, the most ...
Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies), Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001), ISBN 0-89434-367-X children's biography; How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web, Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3
America is one of the 20 richest countries in the world when ranked by average wealth, with an average wealth of about $565,000 per person. This puts the U.S. as No. 4 compared to other wealthy...
Amazon is the Internet company with the highest revenue, at $469.82 billion in 2021. [1] [2]This is a list of Internet companies by revenue and market capitalization.The list is limited to dot-com companies, defined as a company that does the majority of its business on the Internet, with annual revenues exceeding US$1 billion.
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a privately-held American technology services company based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company has an annual revenue of $20 billion (the 19th largest private company in the US [ 1 ] and the biggest black-owned company in the US [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ) and employs over 10,000 people.
The following people were inducted into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame for their contributions and influence. [17] The inductees received a Chromachron watch, engraved with the WWW logo. [14] Tim Berners-Lee, CERN; Marc Andreessen, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA; Eric Bina, Netscape Communications Co., formerly at NCSA