The Internet's Original Source Code is Being Auctioned As an NFT

The bidding starts at $1,000.

British computer scientist and inventor Tim Berners-Lee, one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web, is selling the source code to the original web browser as an NFT. The initial bidding price is $1,000.

The auction, being run by Sotheby’s, will not only include the code for the WorldWideWeb browser, but also a letter from Berners-Lee himself, a vector file that could be printed as a poster, and a 30-minute silent video that depicts the code being typed out.

Invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the “WorldWideWeb” application was the first hypermedia browser/editor, allowing users to create and navigate links between files across a network of computers. It was written in the Objective C programming language, using the Interface Builder on a NeXT computer, a highly influential and innovative computer designed by Steve Jobs in between the time he was forced out of Apple in 1985 and when he rejoined in 1997.

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