Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet. He created HTML and HTTP. It doesn’t really get more foundational than that — Tim was there at the very very beginning of the modern internet.

He also has a new memoir out called This Is For Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web. So Tim joined the show to talk about the state of the web, as well as his current work at the decentralization startup Inrupt, and, of course, where AI fits into the conversation. 

Links: 


This Is For Everyone | Macmillan


The Semantic Web | W3C


Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, now wants to save it | The New Yorker


Why I gave the world wide web away for free | The Guardian


Amazon, Perplexity kick off the great AI web browser fight | The Verge


Web War III | The Verge


Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ | The Verge


Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default | The Verge



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