World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has auctioned off the 30-year-old source code of his invention as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $5.34 million at Sotheby’s.
NFTs are blockchain-based crypto tokens that prove ownership of a digital or physical asset. Berners-Lee has described NFTs as “the latest playful creations in this realm and the most appropriate means of ownership that exists.”
The NFT, titled „This Changes Everything,” relates to four items. The first is a collection of time-stamped files containing the source code for HTML, HTTP and URIs—the three fundamental languages and protocols that Berners-Lee wrote in the early 1990s.
The others are a silent, half-hour video of someone typing up the code on a black screen; a digital poster of the code signed by Berners-Lee’s; and a letter, dated June 2021, from Berners-Lee that reflects on his experience creating the code.
Source Code for the World Wide Web
Since the source code to the web is open source, all the NFT bu
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