(Lot closes June 30, 02:01 PM (EDT); Sotheby's)
The Original Files Containing the Source Code for the World Wide Web, offered as an NFT
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Invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the “WorldWideWeb” application was the first hypermedia browser/editor, allowing users to create and navigate links between files across a network of computers. It was written in the Objective C programming language, using the Interface Builder on a NeXT computer, a highly influential and innovative computer designed by Steve Jobs in between the time he was forced out of Apple in 1985 and when he rejoined in 1997.
Read the rest from Sotheby's: This Changed Everything: Source Code for WWW x Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT)
This website was the subject of my first post in this community because of the significance of the worldwideweb project.
Very cool to see it packaged like this as an NFT as Berners-Lee et al continue working on a decentralized, collaborative digital space.
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Wow. $2.8 million dollar bid at the moment.
Like many at the time, my own first exposure to WWW was probably 1993, with the NCSA Mosaic browser. I wonder if Marc Andreesen or the National Center for Supercomputing Applications will release an NFT for Mosaic (or maybe they already have?)...
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That would be fun!
I originally had exposure to it through AOL initially. I had used telnet before that, but I think AOL was probably how I first experienced web pages.
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Sold for $5.4 million.
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Yep. Came here to add this link. Thanks!
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@remlaps there's apparently an error in the 30 minute video of the code being typed.
Perhaps somebody forgot to use something like an appropriate library or function for escaping certain characters in the animation script, 'cause it's characters like C's
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Yeah, I actually learned about that here in a steemlinks post from @elisangela1426.
The funny thing is that I had noticed those strings in the video when you posted your first article, but I'm so accustomed to mentally replacing those characters when I see them that I totally glossed over the significance of the mistake.
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I was wondering why I didn't catch them, too. I think I just wasn't actually paying attention to the code.
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