The creator of the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is selling off the original code he used to create the World Wide Web in 1989 as an NFT (nonfungible token). The NFT is made up of four parts, including "the original time-stamped files" of the source code, a "an animated visualisation" of the code, a "digital poster" of the code created by Berners-Lee and a letter written by him.

His decision to sell off the code at a Sotheby's auction on 30 June has come as a surprise, although Berners-Lee and his wife Rosemary Leith have said they will donate the proceeds of the sale to good causes. But there is something more surprising about the sale...

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