2021/06/23

World Wide Web Inventor Defends NFT Auction of the Web’s Source Code

● 23/06/2021
“I’m not even selling the source code. I’m selling a picture that I made, with a Python programme that I wrote myself, of what the source code would look like if it was stuck on the wall and signed by me.”
– Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, defending Sotheby’s NFT auction of a representation of the Web’s source code he wrote in 1989. “If [people] felt that me selling an NFT of a poster is inappropriate, then what about me selling a book?”
The Guardian
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