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World Wide Web source code sells for $5.4 million as NFT

By Charles Hilu
Published July 3, 2021 1:00pm ET
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World Wide Web source code sells for $5.4 million as NFT
The original source code for the World Wide Web sold Wednesday for $5.4 million as an NFT at Sotheby’s Auction in London. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are pieces of data housed on digital ledgers called blockchains that certify the asset represented by the data is unique. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, […]

The original source code for the World Wide Web sold Wednesday for $5.4 million as an NFT at Sotheby’s Auction in London.

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are pieces of data housed on digital ledgers called blockchains that certify the asset represented by the data is unique. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, auctioned the code up himself.

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