World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT

The code was written by the British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee between 1990 and 1991, will be tied to an NFT, a smart contract that proves the code's authenticity, right of ownership

From June 23 until June 30, Sotheby’s will auction the 9,555 lines of source code that form the basis of the world wide web.

The code was written by the British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee between 1990 and 1991, and will be tied to an NFT, a smart contract that proves the code’s authenticity and unique right of ownership. The files can be accessed by the buyer through the NFT, which will contain links where the files can be viewed online or downloaded to a computer. The winning bidder will also receive a letter from Berners-Lee “reflecting on the