What is NFT: meaning in tokens, explained by Tim Berners-Lee

A NFT called “source code for www” was sold on June 30, 2021 to bid 5,435,500 USD. This NFT was made by the Berners-Lee team, the code author would be the internet. This NFT (non-fungible token) is approximately equivalent if Jonas Salk has several points written in the formulation and production process for his poly vaccine and placing the paper to be auctioned. 

Take this NFT, for example

NFT was sold on June 30, 2021 by Sotheby called “source code for www” made by the Berners-Lee team. NFT includes the file source code archive and the original date made by TBL. This NFT also includes “animated visualization” from the code written (30 minutes, length of 25 seconds).

Also on NFT is SVG from the original code “from the original file using Python” with a “graph representation” of the TBL physical signature, and a letter from TBL written in the readme.md file in the markde.md format. This NFT was made with the standard NFT ERC-721 tokens, printed on June 15, 2021 (in edition 1.)

Open Source, but also once

Jonas Salk is famous really sure that there will be no patent rights or provided for the biggest achievement: a functioning polio vaccine. The Berners-Lee team worked at CERN when he wrote the initial source code for WorldwideWeb, and convinced CERN leadership to create source source source code, so that it could be used and distributed by anyone.

NFT is a digital token, a code line that can be owned and can represent ownership of assets or assets that are potentially digital and / or physically. In this case, the Berners-Lee team aims to keep the original source code for open source internet making us ask a key question: what is this NFT if the open source source code?

What NFT is: agreement

TBL hasn’t changed my mind about internet ownership. It’s still open source, still out there for everyone to use and work. NFT sold in Sotheby’s is a representation of work, as created by TBL, which is signed by TBL in a way that is roughly similar to how an artist can sign a physical painting or signature chip they become a statue.

The Berners-Lee team spoke with The Guardian about this NFT, gave us a very clear idea of ​​what was represented by this token.

“I don’t even sell source code,” said TBL, “I sell the image I made, with the Python program I wrote itself, about what source code will be seen if it’s stuck on the wall and signed by me.”

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