The "www" program sold for $ 5.4 million
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee at the Bilbao Web Summit at Palacio Euskalduna on May 17, 2011. Reuters - Vincent West
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"Www" for World Wide Web.
These three little letters have changed our life.
The program that created the web was sold for $ 5.4 million.
It was sold in the form of NFT, a technology that allows the property to be certified in a tamper-proof manner.
It was Sotheby's in New York that organized the online sale of this program, which was the origin of the modern Internet.
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In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, British physicist turned computer scientist, imagined a system for sharing information.
It was to allow scientists around the world to access data.
An employee of the CERN Computing Center, he called this new network World Wide Web.
Later, the Briton wrote the program creating the first internet browser.
In passing, he invented concepts such as: URL (for the internet address), HTTP (which allows you to find a site) and HTML (for the computer language essential to create internet pages).
Tim Berners-Lee did not patent his revolutionary program by making it freely available to everyone.
The sale of the original files of the program, considered as a collector's item, allowed this father of the modern internet to collect a small jackpot which he intends to donate in full to charities.
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