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The WHATWG was founded in 2004 and the W3C competed with it for a while before officially forfeiting control over HTML to the WHATWG in 2019.

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The WHATWG is just the standards committee of the W3C. Both include Mozilla, a nonprofit that makes an open-source browser. It is incorrect to suggest that the web is somehow a private business.

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