That`s one expensive NFT.
What you need to know
An NFT of the source code for the World Wide Web went up for auction recently.
It sold for $5.43 million.
On June 23, 2021, Sir Tim Berners-Lee`s auction for an NFT of the source code for WWW (that thing you type in before a website name in the search bar) went live. A week later, on June 30, it closed, with the winning bidder having agreed to pay $5.43 million for their prized NFT.
However, that`s not all the winner is slated to receive. Beyond just the NFT, some additional prizes are included in the lot. Here are the contents of the $5 million haul:
Original archive of dated and time-stamped files containing the source code, written between 3 October 1990 and 24 August 1991
Animated visualization of the code being written (Video, black & white, silent), lasting 30 minutes 25 seconds
An Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) representation of the full code (A0 841mm wide by 1189 mm high), created by Sir Tim from the origin...
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