Book Review: This Is for Everyone - Tim Berners-Lee ★★★☆☆

Is this a biography of a man, or of his mission? Is this the story of how the web came to be, or a lament for what happened to it? Do you crave the inside gossip, or the PR sanitised gloss? This Is For Everyone, but I think it ends up being slightly unsatisfying for anyone. It starts with the normal charming family anecdotes. No grand revelations or hidden secrets, just a lovely ramble through growing up. It's hard to write a memoir without delving in to some of the frailty that makes us human. I wasn't expecting a "tell all" or histrionics, but divorces are waved away in half a sentence and the emotional aspects of life as the inventor of the web are almost totally absent. Where his emotions shine through is the constant undercurrent of rage and disappointment at how the web has been corrupted. those operators turned the supposedly non-profit DNS address system into a nauseating free-for-all. Domain names would become an asset class for investors, rather than a tool for innovators…

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