Dec 17 2004
Happy 10th Anniversary to the W3C
I was fortunate to attend the founding meeting of teh The World Wide Web Consortium at MIT 10 years ago this week. I sat next to Tim at dinner; Unfortunately, when I tried to take notes, my table mates discouraged me. I do remember we had a bottle of Mondavi Cabernet Reserve, though.
Here is a flashback to a Web Watch column I wrote about this meeting:
Dec. 18, 1994. Cambridge, Ma. There are times when you know that you are in the right place at the right time. This happened to me last week in Boston. I attended the first meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Laboratory of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meeting was a small gathering (by Internet standards) of about 50 companies interested in the standardization and growth of the World Wide Web (WWW).
Tim Berners-Lee is the technical director of the consortium. While he was at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, he invented a technology to allow physicists around the world to share scientific information. As the WWW grew far beyond its roots in Physics, he moved to MIT, where he is directing the international consortium.
