WWW Source Code Auctioned for $5 Million
The NFT token associated with the World Wide Web's source code was sold at auction for $5.4 million. WWW is the foundation of modern day Internet - without this technology this news would never have been written.
- The source code of the World Wide Web was sold for $5.4 million at a Sotheby's auction.
World Wide Web's source code creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has sold his greatest work at a Sotheby's auction. An NFT token associated with a file containing 9555 lines of WWW code (with time stamps) reached $5.4 million. This seems like a large sum, but one should keep in mind that this technology is the foundation of the Internet as we know it - without it there wouldn't even be this message. This is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. The winner of the auction paid in bitcoins and received a poster, an animated visualization of the code and a letter from the creator describing the process of its creation, in addition to the file.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the WWW technology in 1989 while working as a computer scientist at the research organization CERN. He invented a way to organize content on the Internet based on hyperlinks, created the first browser and server. The World Wide Web service was always free, and the network was open to everyone. Its creator has never asked for payment, he has not even patented his invention.
NFT token is a kind of authentication of digital works, based on blockchain network. The first ever tweet of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was sold in a similar way. The token associated with the words "just setting up my twttr" changed owners for 2.9 million dollars paid in Ethereum.
