Encyclopedia
Organizations
This department
The standards bodies, nonprofits and institutions that set the rules of the web and keep it running.
Entries
8 of 8 planned entries are published. New entries are added in batches, and every one is checked against its sources before it goes live.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): The web's standards body
- IETF: Where internet protocols are written
- ICANN: Coordinates domain names and IP addresses
- WHATWG: The browser makers' group behind HTML today
- CERN: Where the web was born
- Mozilla Foundation: The nonprofit behind Firefox
- Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine and the web's memory
- Let's Encrypt: Free certificates that made HTTPS the default