Sotheby's will auction World Wide Web source code as NFT

Describing NFTs as the "most appropriate means of ownership that exists," a 65-year-old computer scientist will release a tokenized version of the world wide web code next week. British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the original source code for the World Wide Web, is making the data part of a nonfungible token through luxury auction house Sotheby’s.

According to a Tuesday announcement from Sotheby’s, the auction house will be putting up the World Wide Web nonfungible token, or NFT, for bids starting on June 23. Bidding for the NFT, named “This Changed Everything” and containing timestamped documentation of the code, will start at $1,000.