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

By Kaelan Deese
Published June 19, 2021 1:00pm ET
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Tim Berners-Lee to sell World Wide Web code in Sotheby’s NFT auction
"Today, most people find news and information on the web through just a handful of social media sites and search engines," Tim Berners-Lee wrote. "These sites make more money when we click on the links they show us. And, they choose what to show us based on algorithms which learn from our personal data that they are constantly harvesting." (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) | Lionel Cironneau

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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