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• The web’s stewards have managed the continuing development of the

underlying technologies to ensure its openness and in ways that have lead

to gradual changes and subtle transformations , rather than radical shifts.

• At the some time, the web’s stewards , most notably the world wide web

consortium (or W3C) have fostered important innovations , such as the
development of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and the Cascading

Style Sheets (CSS) specification , the proposal to develop the “Semantic

Web”, and the evaluation of HTML leading to the development of HTML5.

• In the process, the World Wide Web has had profound effects on libraries ,

librarians, and library users, changing the way in which librarians relate to

vendors, clients, bibliographic utilities, and other libraries, and giving rise
to new , often highly creative approaches to serving readers.

• The World Wide Web is a system for creating, organizing and linking
document so that they may be easily browsed.

• Created by Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web id also one of the most
remarkable developments of the last 25 years, and it is virtually certain

that it will continue to be a pervasive influence on both information

producers and information consumers for the foreseeable future.