LONDON: The original source code for the World Wide Web that was written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee is up for sale at Sotheby's as part of a non-fungible token, with bids starting at just US$1,000.
NFTs have exploded in popularity in recent months, including at auction. A digital-only artwork by American artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, sold for nearly US$70 million at Christie's in March. Also included are original HTML documents that instructed early web users on how to use the application.
While working at Europe's physics research centre CERN in 1989, Berners-Lee laid out his vision for what he initially called"Mesh".His boss at the time wrote"vague but exciting" on the cover of Berners-Lee's 1989 paper"Information Management: A Proposal".
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