The World Wide Web sells for $7.2 million in Sotheby’s auction We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Coral Murphy Marcos and Scott Reyburn July 1, 2021 — 9.46am Normal text size Advertisement NFTs, the hot collectible that has been embraced by the founder of Twitter, the National Basketball Association and the artist who created a flying cat with a Pop-Tart body, has cast its reach back to the beginning of the digital age: the source code to an early version of World Wide Web. Sotheby’s on Wednesday auctioned off the code, created by Tim Berners-Lee, in the form of a nonfungible token, or NFT, for $US5.4 million ($7.2 million) with fees. Sotheby’s said it was accepting payment in cryptocurrency for both the hammer price and its buyer fee.