World Wide Web source code NFT sells for $5.43 million

That's one expensive NFT. What you need to know An NFT of the source code for the World Wide Web went up for auction recently. It sold for $5.43 million. On June 23, 2021, Sir Tim Berners-Lee's auction for an NFT of the source code for WWW (that thing you type in before a website name in the search bar) went live. A week later, on June 30, it closed, with the winning bidder having agreed to pay $5.43 million for their prized NFT. However, that's not all the winner is slated to receive. Beyond just the NFT, some additional goods are included in the lot. Here are the contents of the $5 million haul: Original archive of dated and time-stamped files containing the source code, written between 3 October 1990 and 24 August 1991 Animated visualization of the code being written (Video, black & white, silent), lasting 30 minutes 25 seconds An Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) representation of the full code (A0 841mm wide by 1189 mm high), created by Sir Tim from the origina...