Own the World Wide Web’s source code via this NFT auction

The point of inception is up for auction.

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What you need to know

Any internet historians or NFT collectors who want to hold ownership over one of the most valuable items in recent memory can do so via the latest crazy NFT auction: This time, the origin of the World Wide Web itself is being put up for grabs.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with the invention of the World Wide Web (as he is the creator of the first web server and browser), has put up his WWW source code for auction. The auction lot doesn’t just contain source code, though. The winner will receive four distinct historically significant goodies for their (likely significant) financial investment. Here’s what’s included:

If you want to see the auction lot’s details and consider dropping a bid yourself, you can do so over onSotheby’s site, where the action is set to go down. The auction starts on June 23, 2021, and goes until June 30, 2021, meaning you have a couple of days to gather a ton of money with which to stand a fighting chance against the very wealthy folks likely to be vying for ownership over the origin of the web.

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