The source code for the World Wide Web has been sold by the inventor for $5.4 million.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sold an NFT of the web’s source code for $5.4 million at fine art auction house Sotheby’s. The piece titled ‘This Changed Everything’ includes a time-stamped file of the source code’s 9,555 lines, a high-fidelity image, a 30-minute animation of the code being written, along with a letter written by Berners-Lee.While $5.4M is a significant sum, it’s a far cry from the $69 million record set in March for Beeple’s Everydays and less than some observers had predicted. Delphi Digital’s Piers Kicks said he’d been expecting a sale around $10M, noting: Huh, it only fetched $5M. Of course internet memes go for more than this…https://t.co/WHPhNFY1LY— Piers Kicks ️ (@pierskicks) June 30, 2021
According to Berners-Lee, he and his wife will donate the proceeds of the auc
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