The Network’s Source Code Was Sold as an NFT for $5.4 Million

World Wide Web inventor Tim Tim Berners-Lee sold the digital artwork called ‘This Changed Everything’ in a Sotheby’s auction.

The British scientist who invented the WWW in 1989 and changed our lives forever – sold through Sotheby’s, a work of art he called “It Changed Everything.” This artwork consists of four items: 9,555 lines of code written in 1990-1991, an animated video 30 Minutes of the Code, a digital poster of the Code and a digital letter written by Berners-Lee in June 2021.

“As people used to appreciate signed versions of books,” the British scientist wrote, “we now have NFT technology, and I thought it might be fun to create a signed copy of the original code of the first web browser.”

A woman watches the network's source code at Sotheby's. (Photo: AFP)