Creator of World Wide Web to auction off its original source code as NFT

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“It has been fun to go back and look over the code. It is amazing to see the things that those relatively few lines of code, with a help of an amazing growing gang of collaborators across the planet, stayed enough on track to become what the web is now,” wrote Berners-Lee in the letter included in the NFT.

“I have never once felt I could relax and sit back — as the web was and is constantly changing. It is not yet the best it can be: there is always work to be done!” he added. NFTs have exploded in popularity recently, with total sales of the digital assets reaching US$2 billion in the first quarter of this year, according to data from aSeveral inventors and celebrities, like Berners-Lee, have also been auctioning off their own NFTs. In March, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold his first ever tweet, which reads “just setting up my twttr”, for US$2.9 million.

“Sir Tim’s invention created a new world, democratizing the sharing of information, creating new ways of thinking and interacting, and staying connected to one another,” said Cassandra Hatton, global head of science and popular culture at Sotheby’s. The computer scientist’s NFT will go on sale on June 23 until June 30, with bids starting at US$1,000.

Wait I remember Al Gore said he invented the Information Super Highway.

Why not, should be worth a lot

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