World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

Founded and currently led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. As of 4 November 2015, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 408 members.

The W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

History

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which had pioneered the Internet and its predecessor ARPANET.

The organization tries to foster compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards defined by the W3C. Incompatible versions of HTML are offered by different vendors, causing inconsistency in how web pages are displayed. The consortium tries to get all those vendors to implement a set of core principles and components which are chosen by the consortium.

WWWC (AM)

WWWC (1240 AM), also known as 3WC, is a 24-hour Southern Gospel radio station located in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S.A., serving Wilkes County, North Carolina. The station is owned by Foothills Media, Inc. and broadcasts with 1 kilowatt at 1240 kHz on the AM band, as well as over the internet.

The station's two-person morning team is John Wishon and Ted Hayes. Wishon is also the station's owner, general manager and program director.

History

3WC came on the air as a country station, though the format shifted to Top 40 in the early '70s, and remained so for most of its first three decades (the format was officially dubbed as a hybrid of Top-40 and "Hot AC" in the 1980s when owned by Tomlinson Broadcasting, and programmed by Carmen James. Personalities at WWWC during its time as a Top-40/Rock outlet included Rick Ross, Ray "Records" Barber, Omer Tomlinson, Mike Walker, Carmen James, Larry Stone (a teenager at the time now of the NFL's Tennessee Titans), Stan Carmen, and many others. News Directors included Don Curtis (for many years), David Patterson, Barb Flemming (who was also important to the morning show during Mike Walker's tenure as morning host in the '80s). During the period when Tomlinson Broadcasting owned the station, one of its "claims to fame" was having the only two-person news team in the area, with Jeff Stein taking over in the afternoons from (alternately) News Director(s) David Patterson Barb Flemming. Mary Drew also did news for a time in the late '80s, before leaving for WXRC Charlotte. For many years 3WC was an ABC Radio affiliate, carrying shows by Howard Cossell, and of course Paul Harvey.