Learn in the textbookStandardization Organizations
DefinitionW3C is an international body that sets the standard specifications for Web technologies such as HTML and CSS.
ExplanationW3C was founded in 1994 under the lead of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, and companies, universities and research institutes take part as members. Specifications that members discuss and agree on are published as Recommendations (勧告). Because browser developers and site builders follow the same Recommendations, the same page can be viewed in any browser.
AnalogyLike an editorial board that compiles a shared grammar book and hands it out, so that browsers and websites everywhere can speak the same language.
Memory hookWorld Wide Web has three Ws, hence W3, and the final C stands for Consortium.