Photo credit: Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of world wide web Photo source: Corbis
A blockchain-based token representing the original source of World Wide Web (www) written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4m at Sotheby’s in a web auction on Wednesday, the auction house said.
This source code was sold in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) which can be called a kind of crypto asset that records ownership of digital items.
The NFT was created by the English scientist Berners-Lee in 2021 and it now represents ownership of various digital items. This is coming from when he invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
To be precise, the World Wide Web is not sold itself but a blockchain-based record of ownership of files containing the original source code for the World Wide Web was sold. The final price was $5,434,500 and half of the bidders were new to Sotheby’s.
Data source: Reuters
Nigeria’s leading music figure and vocalist, Cobhams Asuquo, known for his singing and production said…
Following a mixed reaction from the South African community representatives, Khoi and San, the Cape…
Mitigating the process and service barriers in African rail transportation, the digital disruption has transformed…
Kais Saied, the Tunisian president has said in his speech that he will allow the…
You know the credibility of an ingredient when it’s plastered all over bottles and jars…
Cyclone Gombe that flooded large areas of central and northern Mozambique is consistently leading to…
This website uses cookies.