A blockchain-based token representing the original source code for the World Wide Web written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby's.

An NFT, called “Source Code for the WWW,” representing the origins of the Internet as we know it had attracted a bid of $2.8 million as of Monday morning — and may go even higher.

Tim Berners-Lee has sold an NFT representing the web's source code for a whopping $5.4 million, but errors been spotted in one of the items.

NFT serves as a unique digital representation of intellectual property. It could be a video, a photograph, an audio file, or even the source code for the internet.

Mine is $350 for an NFT — you can't buy an original piece out of the gallery for that. So it just gives people a chance to participate in collecting a new group of work that I've done.

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 ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 29: Sir Tim Berners-Lee auctions the source code for the World Wide Web as an NFT at Sotheby's on June 29, 2021 in New York City. Noam Galai/Getty Images ...

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.

It was, of course, in the form of a nonfungible token aka an NFT. The source code for the Web was sold to an anonymous buyer, according to Sotheby’s. There were a total of 51 bids on the NFT.