Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s computer, NFT of the first edit to Wikipedia, sold for nearly $1 million

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Wikipedia founder Jim­my Wales’s home com­put­er, a straw­ber­ry iMac he used dur­ing the launch and devel­op­ment of Wikipedia as well as a non-fun­gi­ble token (NFT) of the first edit he made to the plat­form were sold for near­ly $1 mil­lion at an auc­tion on Wednesday.

The straw­ber­ry iMac was the com­put­er he used “dur­ing the site’s infan­cy,” auc­tion house Christie’s which con­duct­ed the auc­tion wrote on its web­site. “It was the com­put­er on which he researched and part­ly devel­oped the online ency­clo­pe­dia, as well as the unit he employed to mon­i­tor the site for van­dals late at night or sim­ply watch in amaze­ment as the project rapid­ly took on a life of its own,” it said.

The sec­ond item was an NFT of the first edit to Wikipedia made by Wales on Jan­u­ary 15, 2001. The NFT fea­tures a “dynam­ic com­po­nent” that will allow the pur­chas­er to edit and recre­ate the expe­ri­ence of devel­op­ing the site from scratch. 

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“Read­ing sim­ply, “Hel­lo, World!”, this first edit cap­tures the “big bang” moment for Wikipedia — the moment of cre­ation for what is now the largest repos­i­to­ry of human knowl­edge ever assem­bled,” it said. The action items were sold for a total of $9,37,500. The straw­ber­ry iMac fetched $1,87,500 while the NFT was sold for a whop­ping $7,50,000.

“Pro­ceeds from the sale of the NFT will help sup­port Wales’s alter­na­tive social media net­work pilot project WT.Social, an attempt to find a health­i­er and non-tox­ic alter­na­tive with exist­ing social media plat­forms with a dona­tion-only adver­tis­ing-free mod­el, as well as to help sup­port a vari­ety of char­i­ties work­ing in the free cul­ture world,” as per an arti­cle on Christie’s website.

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