The document provides an overview of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It discusses that W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop common standards for the World Wide Web. W3C sets standards that make the web work and impact how the world communicates and exchanges information. It has a worldwide network of 4 host sites and 20 offices, with 386 member organizations from 30 countries. W3C works on both current web standards like HTML, CSS, and XML as well as emerging technologies like the semantic web, mobile web, and HTML5.