Tim Berners-Lee

(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class at Tulane University. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.

Tonight marks the final stop on the Australian book tour at Sydney Opera House 🌏

🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺

#thisisforeveryone

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/internet-inventor-tim-berners-lee-interview-battle-soul-web

🙏 @financialtimes@flipboard.com for making 'This Is For Everyone' a Financial Times Best books of the year 📘

https://www.ft.com/content/af555e42-198c-45aa-adb8-3f21b1cb83c0

A special evening being interviewed by my old friend Juan Enriquez in Boston @ The Brattle Theatre... and no, that's not Juan in the photo 👀 but Rosemary Leith who could do the interview with ease after sitting through every book tour event 🙏

Started this week @92ndstreety@mastodon.social in conversation with Camille Francois. 🙏 to everyone for making it a full house.

A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with Thomas Friedman made for a great atmosphere last night. Huge thanks to Tom for the questions covering the web's history, it's future and everything in between 🌐

Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️

This Is for Everyone is available now from http://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

“The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web.

🙏 @WashPost@flipboard.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/09/12/this-is-everyone-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-review/

"The internet needs compassion - and I have a solution."

🙏 to @EveningStandard@flipboard.com for this extract from my new memoir 'This Is for Everyone' 📖

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/internet-social-media-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-b1247551.html

Thank you to The Observer for this thoughtful review.

“Berners-Lee is clear-eyed about the benefits and the dangers. This Is for Everyone contains some very sharp thinking about what we need to do now.”

We must fight for the web we want.

https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/nick-clegg-and-tim-berners-lee-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-internet

In 4 days my memoir 📕 'This Is for Everyone' will be published. The book tour kicks off the same day with many more events following.

Follow the journey on the book's Instagram -
https://instagram.com/sirtimbernersleeforeveryone/

🙏 to the brilliant and magnificent @stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk for giving his time to record my audiobook THIS IS FOR EVERYONE 🌐

Pre-order and book tour dates @ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stephen-fry-to-voice-audiobook-of-tim-berners-lees-memoir

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/public-ownership-of-water-in-england-and-wales-is-best-way-to-improve-industry-peoples-commission-finds “there was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for major reform of the water industry that must not be missed.”

Tour dates for my book ‘This is for Everyone’ released today. Join me in London Sept 9th, Oxford Sept 10th or Edinburgh Sept 13th.

More on US dates and the rest of the 🌍 soon.

🙏 Intelligence Squared @blackwells@mstdn.social @PortobelloLibrary@mastodonapp.uk

https://linktr.ee/thisisforeveryoneukevents

From scribbled notes to a global revolution - the personal journey behind the World Wide Web’s invention and the unexpected turns along the way. It is both a history and my vision for what comes next.

This is for Everyone isn’t just a story about technology; it’s about possibility.

Available September 9th, pre-order now https://linktr.ee/thisisforeveryone

#ThisisforEveryone

Join the Solid movement to play a part in building a better Web and global data infrastructure.

Apply for a role on the Solid Advisory Committee below ⬇️ @ODIHQ@mastodon.social

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