An NFT of the World Wide Web Source Code Sold for $5.4 Million
Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote the 9,555 lines of code in the early 1990s.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Courtesy of Sotheby's
The original source code for the World Wide Web sold at Sotheby’s on Wednesday for $5.4 million, up from a starting bid of just $1,000.
The code was sold by Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist credited with writing the source code that forms the basis of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee consigned the code for auction by attaching it to an NFT, a type of smart contract that uses blockchain technology.