Sir Tim Berners-Lee will sell an NFT representing the source code of the world wide web at Sotheby’s, the auction house has announced, more than 32 years after his first proposal for the project was dismissed by a supervisor as “vague, but exciting”. They are the ideal way to package the origins behind the web.”Going up for auction in a standalone sale, This Changed Everything will be a single-edition NFT, bundling four artefacts. It will include the original time-stamped files containing the source code written in 1990 and 1991; an animated visualisation of the code being written; a letter written by Berners-Lee; and a digital “poster” of the full code. “For years, people have been asking ‘what do we do with digital-born artefacts?’ NFTs are making this possible. This Changed Everything will go on sale on 23 June for a week, with bids starting at $1,000 (£710).

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 10:52 UTC