This is For Everyone - Tim Berners-Lee

Finished reading: This is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee 📚

Firstly, I have no idea why, but I wasn’t aware of how intermingled Tim has been with high society. He doesn’t try and hide it in this book - quite the opposite - but it was a little startling to read about in current times. I wanted to tell him to read the room, more than once.

However, I really enjoyed the nostalgic trip the book provided. I grew up as the web grew up, so it felt both interesting and oddly cathartic. Tim took us from the genesis of the first page, through the various milestones of the web’s development, and his take on its future.

He certainly sounds more of an optimist of where we could head than I expected, but maybe this was more wishful than his honest expectation. The Solid project did pique my interest not long ago, and I might just be convinced to take another look at playing with it.

I can’t imagine a non-technologist being at all interested in spending the time reading this - but if you’re involved at all, it is worth including on your list, in my opinion.