Inventor Tim Berners-Lee puts original World Wide Web files up for auction

British computer scientist sells digitally-signed source code of the Web as a non-fungible token (NFT), with money going to initiatives he supports (Philip Toscano/PA)

The original files of the World Wide Web are being sold at auction by British inventor Tim Berners-Lee.

Digitally-signed source code documents written by the computer scientist three decades ago will go under the hammer as a non-fungible token (NFT).