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Tim Berners-Lee to sell World Wide Web code in Sotheby’s NFT auction

By Kaelan Deese
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Tim Berners-Lee to sell World Wide Web code in Sotheby’s NFT auction

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is set to auction the original code for the World Wide Web as a nonfungible token for Sotheby’s in London.

Berners-Lee, 66, invented the World Wide Web in 1989, which marked the beginning of one of the most important applications built on top of the internet. The auction for the NFT will run from June 23 to 30 with a starting bid of $1,000.

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