1) The Internet existed long before the WWW. Don't confuse the two. 2) At least do Sir Tim the courtesy of spelling his surname correctly. 3) WC3 is nothing - it's W3C.
@PhilipKendall I agree, did I imply otherwise if Sir Tim is often referred to as the "father of the Internet"? Fixed; I got their name correct in the question not the answer for the record, and even linked to their official Wikipedia entry.
@PhilipKendall & Amon: Thank you for opensource.stackexchange.com/revisions/12449/7. Sorry, I am legit terrible with remembering name spellings/pronunciations. I realize that was a glaring error, you would think I would be better at names, but nah. I copied the wiki name link or else it would have had a typo too. I really did not get the error, even after you mentioned. :/ P.S. Amon, I appreciate (a learning process...) you added a preface.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the invention of the Internet. He was barely 15 years old at the time. He did invent the World Wide Web, but that was 20 years after the Internet.
The W3C has nothing to do with "the standards that run the Internet". That's the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The W3C is responsible for the standards of the World Wide Web. It's literally in the name "World Wide Web Consortium". Although note that the W3C is mostly concerned with the document side and the conceptual side. E.g. the W3C specifies XML, but HTTP is specified by the IETF, and ECMAScript is specified by ECMA. And because they were moving so slowly and focusing on XML, W3C lost control of HTML, too, which is now specified by WHATWG.