As reported by BusinessWire

“W3C10″ Program Looks Back, Looks Forward

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, W3C is organizing a one-day symposium on 1 December for its Members and invited guests to reflect on the impact of the Web, W3C’s central role in its growth, and risks and opportunities facing the Web during W3C’s second decade.

The “10″ and “15″ came through very well here.

In March of 1989 while employed at CERN (l’Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire), Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal that would become the basis for the World Wide Web. With approval from his supervisor, the late Mike Sendall, and support from colleagues including Robert Cailliau, Berners-Lee’s invention grew from one server at CERN (1990), to millions and millions of servers today.
In October 1994, Berners-Lee, with help from the late Michael Dertouzos of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Its earliest stated mission was to “Lead the Web to Its Full Potential.”

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