“ForEveryone.Net” connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth and the principles upon which it was founded. Sir Tim Berners-Lee has declared Internet access a human right and has called for an “online Magna Carta” to protect privacy and free speech, extend connectivity to populations without access, and maintain “one web” for all.

From the beginning the Web was designed to be a free and open system for anyone to use. As it quickly gained in popularity, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was faced with a major decision. Should he patent his invention? Unlike most tech pioneers, Tim thought it should benefit all of humanity, so he gave it away. In so doing, the door was opened to everyone to develop a Web that would transform the world.

Before the Web computers could not communicate with each other. Each was a closed system. The problem was how to connect them. What if instead of physically connecting computers you created a space to link all the information stored on each of them? Sir Tim Berners-Lee set out to build a platform to share every single piece of information in the world into a single global information space.

For Sir Tim Berners-Lee net neutrality is vital to the existence of the World Wide Web. His biggest fear is that some company or government or combination of both might end up controlling the Web. Today the information highway is wide open and free with everyone having equal access. But some people want to turn it into a toll road, block access or censor content. Will we allow it to happen?

The son of mathematicians, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was encouraged to use his imagination. Curious and clever, he became fascinated with computers. Tim soon realized that they were the magic threshold to turning dreams into reality. And if computers could be programmed to make seemingly random associations, they could become so powerful as to rival the human brain. What matters, is the connections.