{"id":2015,"date":"2021-07-01T01:47:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/tim-berners-lees-nft-of-world-wide-web-source-code-sold-for-5-4m\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T01:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:47:02","slug":"tim-berners-lees-nft-of-world-wide-web-source-code-sold-for-5-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/tim-berners-lees-nft-of-world-wide-web-source-code-sold-for-5-4m\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s NFT of world wide web source code sold for $5.4m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto asset represents ownership of various digital items from when Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989<\/p>\n<p>An NFT of the original source code for the world wide web, written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has sold for $5.4m at Sotheby\u2019s in an online auction, the auction house said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A non-fungible token (NFT) is a kind of crypto asset that records ownership of digital items, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2021\/jun\/24\/how-meme-stars-early-internet-striking-it-rich-nfts-podcast\">has recently<\/a> become a major asset in the creative world, with NFTs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/17\/cryptocurrency--at-digital-only-artwork-nfts-collecting\">artwork<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/13\/how-non-fungible-tokens-became-the-latest-tech-speculation-bubble\">music<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/30\/disaster-girl-meme-nft-sale-zoe-roth\">internet memes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/23\/nfts-and-me-meet-the-people-trying-to-sell-their-memes-for-millions\">selling<\/a> for millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/30\/world-wide-web-nft-sold\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ea33231667f3d98eae4695d05bbcd781a83bf481\/0_196_5965_3577\/master\/5965.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=163378ec9d3e675afe709424f863429b\" title=\"Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s NFT of world wide web source code sold for $5.4m\" \/>Crypto asset represents ownership of various digital items from when Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989<br \/>\nAn NFT of the original source code for the world wide web, written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has sold for $5.4m at Sotheby\u2019s in an online auction, the auction house said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nA non-fungible token (NFT) is a kind of crypto asset that records ownership of digital items, and has recently become a major asset in the creative world, with NFTs of artwork, music and internet memes selling for millions of dollars. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto asset represents ownership of various digital items from when Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 An NFT of the original source code for the world wide web, written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has sold for $5.4m at Sotheby\u2019s in an online auction, the auction house said on Wednesday. A non-fungible token (NFT) is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/tim-berners-lees-nft-of-world-wide-web-source-code-sold-for-5-4m\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s NFT of world wide web source code sold for $5.4m<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}