Tim Berners-Lee has put up the original web source code at a Sotheby’s online auction as a non-fungible token with the current bidding of $3 million.
Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist who created the Internet and has now put its original code into an NFT – the popular trend in the crypto industry. The NFT token includes the original files with the source code created by the scientist with a timestamp, an animated visualization of the code and a few other bonuses.
The auction started on June 22 with a bidding at $1,000. By now, it has risen to $3 million. The auction will finish today, June 30th, at 7 p.m. London time.