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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 17d

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 thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

@thetimes.com

A graphic of the cover of Tim Berners-Lee's news book with the wording 'The Instant Sunday Times bestseller'. The cover is a dark blue with a ring of rainbow pixels around Tim's name in the middle and the wording 'The Inventor of the World Wide Web'

The print edition of the Sunday Times Bestsellers list. This Is For Everyone by Sir Tim Berners-Lee is placed fourth.

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 21d

“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.

🙏 @washingtonpost.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone'

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right?

In “This Is for Everyone,” Tim Berners-Lee writes about the early days of the internet and how we might restore its more democratic roots.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 23d

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

🙏 to @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy for this extract from my new memoir 'This Is for Everyone' 📖

www.standard.co.uk/comment/inte...

Tim Berners-Lee: The internet needs compassion – and I have a solution

We need to regulate the most addictive algorithms, writes Tim Berners-Lee

www.standard.co.uk

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 27d

On Tuesday I launched my memoir 'This Is for Everyone' at
@cadoganhall.bsky.social

Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere.

Special thanks to
Tania Bryer
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@intelligence2.bsky.social

Tim Berners-Lee on stage with Tania Bryer seated opposite one another. Tim's face is expressive with his hands up in the air.

Tim Berners-Lee on stage with Tania Bryer seated opposite one another. You see Tania's face smiling at Tim who is holding one hand up.

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you to @observeruk.bsky.social 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.

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul o...

The ex-deputy PM toes the line of his former Meta paymasters, while the web's inventor shares his vision of a utopian digital future

observer.co.uk

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Sep 5

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 -
instagram.com/sirtimberner...

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ooops preorder and tour link should be thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

Pre-order and book tour dates @ www.timbl.com/thisisforeve...

www.thebookseller.com/news/stephen...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee sat next to Stephen Fry holding the cover of Tim's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · May 29

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.
‪‪
🙏 @intelligence2.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social

linktr.ee/thisisforeve...

thisisforeveryoneukevents | Instagram | Linktree

The groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web

linktr.ee

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Apr 23

From scribbled notes to a global revolution-the personal journey behind the Web’s invention and the unexpected turns along the way. It's both a history and my vision.

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

September 9th, pre-order linktr.ee/thisisforeve...

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Apr 3

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 ⬇️

Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social · Apr 2

Solid, an open-source initiative led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is reimagining data use, reuse and sharing. Solid is looking to recruit members for the Solid Advisory Committee. Find out more about the roles and responsibilities. Closing date is Monday 14th April 10:00 BST.
theodi.org/news-and-eve...

Solid Operations Advisory Committee

Learn more about our open call for members of the Solid Operations Advisory Committee.

theodi.org

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Mar 16

Charlie is the evolution of agentic AI. It's built on top of a re-wired data infrastructure using solidproject.org to give people the security and trust they need to share their data.

With dramatically more personalised results, Charlie will empower users with their own data.

Home - Solid

solidproject.org

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Mar 16

In 2017 I wrote about Charlie - an AI that works for you. @inrupt.bsky.social labs now has Charlie working.

Thanks to the FT for my op-ed online today ⬇️
www.ft.com/content/79d2...

Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens

I envisioned the web as a place for the shared benefit of all — by reclaiming our data we can make that happen

www.ft.com

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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · Feb 20

Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to share a video from Future House (our collaboration with Human Change at #Davos2025) of the session Past as Prologue: Charting the Next Frontier of the Internet featuring Lady Rosemary Leith, Frank McCourt, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Past as Prologue: Charting the Next Frontier of the Internet

At this inflection point in the internet's evolution, we face a critical choice between increasing centralization and the web's original democratic promise.…

vimeo.com

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · Feb 21

Solid World is for the first time being hosted by @odihq.bsky.social on Monday 24th - join to learn, and be a part of, the Solid Community 🟣

Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social · Feb 20

🚀 Exciting News! Join us for Solid World on 24 Feb, our first as stewards of Solid at the ODI! Solid is a web standard from Tim Berners-Lee’s MIT Lab, empowering users to control their data with Personal Online Data Stores. Come along and find out more.
https://buff.ly/3QdHYtv

Solid World: February 2025

Get ready for a rock-solid experience at Solid World: February 2025 - where innovation meets inspiration!

eventbrite.co.uk

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