Tim Berners-Lee: This Is For Everyone (2025)

I consider myself quite lucky to have seen the time when computers were still pretty basic and the internet was almost unheard of. The first computer I interacted with had a small monochrome display and two 5.25" floppy drives. The family story goes that I broke its keyboard by hitting it very hard when I was just one year old. A few years later we got a slow modem which made it possible to connect to bulletin board systems (BBS), but the world was still simple with no Web, no search engines, and no attention economy. That was a roundabout way of saying I really enjoyed This Is for Everyone (2025) by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, as the book is quite a trip down memory lane. Sir Tim is the one who invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989. He had the idea of using hypertext to link between different servers and came up with HTML, HTTP, URLs, and the first browser and web server. 📚 The book is engaging and well written, chronicling the history of the web from its inception to…