Sep 3, 2026, 7:36 PMThis Is For Everyone is now available in paperback.
You might recognise the face on the cover...a younger me at MIT in 1998 when 150 million people used the web. Today it's roughly 6 billion.
Read about how the web came to be and where I think it's going ➡️ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
@timbl I love the title.
you fixed free speech. everybody can "speak" to everyone else.
decentralized social media fixes the attention problem, by making it democratically determined via a trusted network of human boosts.
the last piece is money. a protocol for fiat transfer such that the creators of what we choose to experience can be automatically and directly supported in their work.
@timbl
when will be in my country translated may think of this one.
and i really read rarely.
@MedeaVanamonde @timbl I used xmosaic when it came out in 1993 - it went downhill from there … 😉
Sep 3, 2026, 7:50 PM@timbl considering the e-book vendors I doubt that the title of the book meets the e-book distribution.
All those four vendors in your page are antithesis to open web. Even Kobo sells it with DRM lock which basically prevents me reading it with my reMarkable e-ink device.
How is the e-book for everyone?
@tarmot @timbl for 99p on Kobo right now I’m probably OK with the DRM.. lol no of course if I get that it’s going straight through Calibre to strip the DRM.
Mr Berners-Lee, given this book is already on well known ebook piracy sites the DRM is pointless. Please support DRM-free ebook vendors also and offering DRM-free wherever that’s supported. Believe Kobo does permit DRM-Free titles.
@timbl really enjoyed the book. I still need to create a data pod.
@timbl general question - is there a way to purchase a non-drm ebook these days? Specifically this book?
@leffie Generally it depends on the publisher. Some of them sell DRM-free books directly, and some shops like Kobo, Bookshop or ebooks.com will sell you a DRM-free book if the publisher requests it.
As for specifically this one, I don't know.
@timbl Ahhh the web in 1998! Good times!
Sep 3, 2026, 9:36 PM@timbl @Guillotine_Jones why do you refuse to engage me in combat tim
Sep 3, 2026, 9:41 PM@timbl @Guillotine_Jones you’re gonna lose your nickname tim “burners” lee
your fans will never call you burners again
you’ll lose the patent rights to the burner phone when I defeat you in the ring
Sep 3, 2026, 9:44 PM@timbl @Guillotine_Jones “this is for everyone” just like the smackdown vs .raw you’re in for
w3c is about to stand for wrestling, wrestling, wrestling crimes
we’re going to get sued by Ed McMahon, burners
but I will have your name and the belt and the drug dealing phone you’re famous for
Sep 3, 2026, 9:45 PM@timbl @Guillotine_Jones I don’t forgive you for solid or the weird crypto shit or the AI grifting either and I apologize if this causes me to violate kayfabe please do not report me to Ed McMahon
@timbl Yes. I still blame you for this shit.
@timbl Absolute Legend
@timbl can you still rename the book it to "this is gonna be fun & cool for a while until it will turn into a terrible dumpster fire"?
😂
@timbl we love you, Tim. And we thank you. And we are listening to you.
Sep 4, 2026, 12:59 PM@timbl really enjoyed reading it and all the thoughts that went into the creation of www