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The standards bodies, nonprofits and institutions that set the rules of the web and keep it running.

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0 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) (coming soon): The web's standards body
  • IETF (coming soon): Where internet protocols are written
  • ICANN (coming soon): Coordinates domain names and IP addresses
  • WHATWG (coming soon): The browser makers' group behind HTML today
  • CERN (coming soon): Where the web was born
  • Mozilla Foundation (coming soon): The nonprofit behind Firefox
  • Internet Archive (coming soon): The Wayback Machine and the web's memory
  • Let's Encrypt (coming soon): Free certificates that made HTTPS the default

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