# clm_9BEF0488089E

subject: World Wide Web Consortium (/record/w3c.md)  
predicate: founder  
value: Tim Berners-Lee  
valid_from: undated  
valid_to: null  
published: no source on record carries a date  
recorded: 2026-11-01  
confidence: 0.95  
status: valid  
assertable: true  
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last_updated: 2026-11-01  
checked: 2026-11-01 · its source page states the value and the date  

> In 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with support from CERN, DARPA (as ARPA had been renamed to) and the European Commission.

What https://www.w3.org/wiki/The_history_of_the_Web says, word for word.

## Sources

- https://www.w3.org/wiki/The_history_of_the_Web (primary, w3.org)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37033 (secondary, Wikidata)

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