(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 @tulaneu.bsky.social. 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 @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social 🌏 🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺 #thisisforeveryone www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet

Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

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🙏 @financialtimes.com & @johnthornhill.bsky.social for making 'This Is For Everyone' a Financial Times Best books of the year 📘 www.ft.com/content/af55...

Best books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology

Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles

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A special evening being interviewed by my old friend Juan Enriquez in Boston @brattletheatre.bsky.social... 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.bsky.social in conversation with @camillefrancois.bsky.social . 🙏 to everyone for making it a full house.

A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social 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 thisisforeveryone.timbl.com @thetimes.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. 🙏 @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.

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"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

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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

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

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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...

🙏 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...

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...

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...

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 ⬇️

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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...

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

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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.…

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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 · last yr.

🚀 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

1/7 Last week @weforum.org um.org, @pedro-sanchez-archivo.braxuss.eu gave a vital speech about social media - urging leaders to tackle #onlineharms head on ⬇️ www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Davos 2025: Special address by Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez

Spain PM Pedro Sánchez tells Davos that social media is a 'common resource for humanity' that should be 'protected and managed accordingly' for democracy.

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Put these 2 together and it’s clear our governments are totally failing us. 1️⃣ 1,700+ fossil fuel lobbyists at the COP29 climate talks. 2️⃣ UN says the fossil fuel industry is running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” to delay the transition to clean energy. Links in reply

#TheWeekinData: ODI and Solid come together * ODI and Solid come together to give individuals greater control over personal data * Google going nuclear * Dodo comes back to life theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/odi-and-soli...

📢 solidproject.org will have a new organisational home @odihq.bsky.social - 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.

Open Data Institute@odihq.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re embarking on a significant new project, bringing Solid - which gives individuals & organisations greater control over their data - into our broader #DataStewardship work. Together, we can shape a future where personal agency is respected & society & economy benefit theodi.org/insights/pro...

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. webfoundation.org

The dysfunction of social networks is a problem we must tackle www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html but remember there are lots of great things on the internet too! www.w3.org/DesignIssues... Don’t throw away your [kids] phone. Use the good things. #webwewant

From securing personal data with #SolidPods to leveraging #SmartData for innovation, the ODI's white paper shows why data infrastructure and governance are the bedrock of AI. theodi.org/news-and-eve...

Fundamental issues - including shortage of high-quality data - threaten the AI boom

Significant weaknesses in the UK’s tech infrastructure threaten the predicted potential gains from AI.

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As the web shifts towards user empowerment over data, @inrupt.bsky.social's standard, interoperable Data Wallet infrastructure ensures that the benefits of personal Data Wallets are open to everyone. #Solid #SolidProtocol #DataWallets www.inrupt.com/blog/data-wa...

BOSTON – Today, Inrupt, the leading provider of enterprise-grade software for the web, announced the launch of its Data Wallet. Enterprises and governments use the technology to give their customers and citizens digital wallets for their data, creating a foundation for innovative, intuitive and impactful digital experiences.

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The wonder of the web is that there is no center of control. That is why I, alongside 36 others, have signed the below open letter to @antonioguterres & @UNTechEnvoy 🖊️ #OpenInternet open-internet-governance.org/letter

An Open Letter to the United Nations

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The FCC vote to restore net neutrality is a reassuring and positive step back in the right direction. Thank you 🙏 to all who have campaigned for #netneutrality docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

My open letter marking the Web’s 35th birthday addresses the erosion of the web’s core values and resulting power imbalances that are influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts. The time to act is now. 👉 medium.com/@timberners_...

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter to mark the occasion of the Web’s 35th Birthday.

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