(SOUNDBITE) (English) CHAIRMAN OF SOTHEBY'S EUROPE, OLIVER BARKER, SAYING: "The bidding started with a kind of huge rush of bids, we had multiple bids as we went to live and even after the first two ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee famously gave the source code to the World Wide Web away for free. But now he has raised over $5.4 million by auctioning off an autographed copy as a non-fungible token, or NFT, in ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has sold an NFT of the original source code for the world wide web for an eye-watering $5.4 million, but the buyer could be in for an unpleasant surprise: a security researcher has ...

Forty-four bids have driven the NFT's price up from a starting $1,000 to the current $2.8 million. AFP via Getty Images An NFT representing the origins of the Internet as we know it had attracted a ...

NFT sales seem to be popping up left and right these days, but this one might just take the cake for "most important." NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 29: A view outside Sotheby's auction house on June 29, ...

Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1989. On Wednesday, he auctioned the world wide web in the form of a non-fungible token or NFT, which sold to an anonymous buyer for $5 ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee's original source code for the World Wide Web, represented as a non-fungible token (NFT), has sold at auction for $5.4 million. The NFT, which is a type of blockchain-based asset ...

NFT season is still going strong. The NFT of the source code for the World Wide Web, auctioned by WWW inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sold for $5,434,500 at a Sotheby's auction. It was put up for ...

The original code used to create the World Wide Web was sold at auction for $5.4 million as an NFT. The auction house Sotheby's announced the NFT offered by code creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee drew a ...