Tim Berners-Lee

WebId: https://timbl.inrupt.net/profile/card#me
Pre-order my memoir 'This is for Everyone': https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/

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2026-09-03 19:36:21 UTC

This Is For Everyone is now available in paperback.
You might recognise the face on the cover...a younger me at MIT in 1998 when 150 million people used the web. Today it's roughly 6 billion.
Read about how the web came to be and where I think it's going ➡️ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
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2026-03-12 20:44:10 UTC

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(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

2026-03-12 20:41:16 UTC

(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.

2025-09-21 15:35:05 UTC

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
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2025-09-07 14:56:29 UTC

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

2025-08-12 19:18:37 UTC

🙏 to the brilliant and magnificent @npub14hc…alyr for giving his time to record my audiobook THIS IS FOR EVERYONE 🌐
Pre-order and book tour dates @ https://www.timbl.com/thisisforeveryone
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stephen-fry-to-voice-audiobook-of-tim-berners-lees-memoir
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2025-05-29 09:00:12 UTC

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 @npub1tyx…uxvt @npub1s0g…yrgh
https://linktr.ee/thisisforeveryoneukevents

2025-04-23 13:00:10 UTC

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
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2025-01-21 18:11:00 UTC

Just published a new DesignIssues note on the general vision of what a world will be like with everyone in control of their own data - the Solid Protocol benefits for when you have more than one app that has its data under your control.
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Vision.html

2024-12-20 18:30:32 UTC

The Open Data Institute in London (@npub13ge…8u09) is a beneficiary of the @npub19kd…t56d Lifetime Fundraiser 2024 🙏 By entering Proton’s raffle you will support a good Data Infrastructure - the bedrock of AI - that’s what the ODI exists to create #ResponsibleAI
Having taken on the governance of the #SolidProject, the ODI will help make sure your personal data is used by you, for YOU.
https://proton.me/blog/2024-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser?utm_campaign=The%20Week%20in%20Data%20TWID&utm_medium=email&utm_content=339536381&utm_source=hs_email

2024-11-12 12:43:52 UTC

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2024-10-17 15:09:16 UTC

📢 solidproject.org will have a new organisational home @npub13ge…8u09 - pairing policy expertise with pro-human technology to build a global data infrastructure that encourages collaboration, stimulates creativity and fosters compassion - my original hope for the web.
https://mastodon.social/@ODIHQ/113323384693905104

2024-09-30 06:55:08 UTC

After 15 years of work with Rosemary Leith to make the web more accessible, affordable and a trusted space for all we wind down the Web Foundation to focus on building pro-human systems that respect and empower individuals.
Huge thank you to all involved. https://webfoundation.org/