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The original source code that forms the foundation of the World Wide Web is sold by its creator and the popular computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in the Sotheby auction on Wednesday. The bid for the source code started with $1,000 and unexpectedly reached up to the mark of $5.4 million. The source code of the World Wide Web is sold as an NFT.
A few weeks back, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the new NFT of the World Wide Web, which came in the form of the World Wide Web’s original source code. Berners-Lee introduced the new NFT in Sotheby’s auction and luckily, it sold at a great price. This original source code of the information system WWW was developed by Tim Berner’s Lee 30 years ago and never thought of gaining back any profit out of it. Instead, the computer scientist distributed the platform free to contribute to digitalizing the world.
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