Tim Berners-Lee—Founded W3C to ensure web standards remain open, royalty-free, and universal
In October 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT to develop and maintain open web standards. The organization's royalty-free patent policy ensures all W3C standards (HTML, CSS, accessibility guidelines) can be freely implemented by anyone, preventing fragmentation of the web.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Internet & Web Freedom | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +1.180 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (critical ×2) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Founded W3C to ensure web standards remain open, royalty-free, and universal
In October 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT to develop and maintain open web standards. The organization's royalty-free patent policy ensures all W3C standards (HTML, CSS, accessibility guidelines) can be freely implemented by anyone, preventing fragmentation of the web.