This Is for Everyone
| Author | Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen Witt |
|---|---|
| Subject | History of World Wide Web |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 9 September 2025 |
| ISBN | 9781035023677 |
| Published simultaneously in United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux with the subtitle: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web (ISBN 9780374612467)[1] | |
This Is for Everyone is a memoir by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, co-written by Stephen Witt and published in 2025. The United States edition has the added subtitle The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web.[2][3] It provides a first hand history of the invention and evolution of the World Wide Web, how the World Wide Web triggered a slew of other major changes, including the birth of e-commerce, browser wars, progression of search engines, dot-com bubble, the spread of social media, transition of the web from personal computers to mobile devices, and the emergence of AI.[4] It also contains Berners-Lee's prescriptions for a better internet, especially on how people can reclaim control over their digital lives.[5]
The first part of the book contains details about his childhood and upbringing in London, his student days including those at the University of Oxford and early career first at Plessey, a British electronic company and then at CERN.[3]
The book was written with ghost-writer Stephen Witt.[6]
References
- ^ "This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web". us.macmillan.com. Macmillan. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
"This Is for Everyone". www.panmacmillan.com. Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 22 February 2026. - ^ Kavenna, Joanna. "Three assessments of the online world". TLS. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ a b Thornhill, John (20 September 2025). "This is for Everyone — Tim Berners-Lee's manifesto for a better online world". Financial Times, UK. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ "'This is for Everyone' by Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor explores Net gain and loss". The Tribune. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ "Bryan Appleyard - Tangled Web". Literary Review. 18 February 2026. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ This is for Everybody page 365: "my co-writer, Stephen Witt"