StandardsDB
106 famous technical standards, from ISO 9001 and IEEE 802.11 to USB Type-C, A4 paper and shipping containers. A factual record of the agreements that make the modern world interchangeable.
Landmark Standards
ISO 9001
The best known quality management standard in the world. It defines a process based system built on the plan do check act cycle...
IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi
The wireless LAN family first standardized in 1997 at 2 megabits per second. Successive amendments raised speeds, from 802.11b to...
USB Type-C
The 24 pin reversible connector whose specification was published in August 2014. It carries data, video and up to 240 watts of...
HTML5
The fifth major revision of Hypertext Markup Language became a W3C Recommendation in October 2014, introducing native video and...
ISO 8601
The international date and time notation standard, best known for YYYY-MM-DD ordering that sorts correctly. The 2019 edition...
ISO 668 Shipping Containers
The standard that fixed the dimensions and corner castings of freight containers, building on the boxes Malcom McLean sailed in...
UTF-8
The variable length Unicode encoding designed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in September 1992 and first presented at USENIX in...
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface, standardized by IEEE and adopted by ISO and The Open Group. Born from the Unix wars of...
MIDI 1.0
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, agreed in 1983 through a proposal by Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi, lets synthesizers...