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RE: This Changed Everything: Source Code for WWW x Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT / Lot 1
@remlaps there's apparently an error in the 30 minute video of the code being typed.
• A video in Tim Berners-Lee’s NFT package supposedly shows the source code for the web “being typed” in the computing language C.
• But it contains characters from HTML, a computing language created as a result of the web.
• The NFT sold for $5.4 million and may have just risen in value thanks to that error.
- According to Decrypt
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 > that show up as HTML's >.
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.
I was wondering why I didn't catch them, too. I think I just wasn't actually paying attention to the code.