The code was written by the British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee between 1990 and 1991, will be tied to an NFT, a smart contract that proves the code's authenticity, right of ownership
Mr Berners-Lee's creation can be changed for the better
Berners-Lee cautioned it was important to strike a balance between oversight and freedom but difficult to agree what it should be
Working at CERN, Switzerland, Berners-Lee laid out the basic concepts of the WWW in a proposal which included ideas like HTML, URL and HTTP
Berners-Lee wrote while the web had created opportunities and made daily lives easier, it had also created an opportunity for scammers, enabled spread of hatred, and made crime easier to commit
A set of principles have been prepared to guide the future of the web. These principles include ensuring that governments allow everyone to connect and have privacy
Paying for things online can be cumbersome. Even the man who invented the web, Tim Berners-Lee, says he frequently throws up his hands
Today, the World Wide Web has become a system that is often subject to control by governments and corporations