The World Wide Web (WWW) began as a project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where Tim Berners-Lee developed a vision of the World Wide Web.
万维网（WWW）是作为欧洲原子能研究机构组织（CERN）的一个项目而被创建出来的。在那里，Tim Berners-Lee 开发了万维网的第一个可视化版本。

Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the World Wide Web - is now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Tim Berners-Lee - 万维网的创始人 - 现在是W3C的总指挥。

W3C was created in 1994 as a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), with support from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the European Commission.
W3C 是由美国麻省理工大学（MIT）和欧洲原子能研究机构组织（CERN）

W3C is working to make the Web accessible to all users (despite differences in culture, education, ability, resources, and physical limitations)
W3C 致力于让所有人都能够访问网络（包括不同的文化、教育程度、能力、资源和物理限制）

W3C also coordinates its work with many other standards organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Wireless Application Protocols (WAP) Forum and the Unicode Consortium.
W3C 通常与其它的标准化组织合作，如：Internet 工程任务组。无线应用协议（WAP）论坛和统一标准编码协会。

W3C is hosted by three universities:
W3C 是由三所大学主办：

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.
  美国麻省理工
  
• The French National Research Institute in Europe
  欧洲法国国家研究机构
  
• Keio University in Japan
  日本庆应大学（Keio University）