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by Mike Robinson

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Wikipedia’s First Edit Sold as an NFT for $750,000

“Hello, World!” – read Wikipedia’s first homepage entry that became “the largest and most-read reference work in history.”

The last edit was made January 15th 2001.

This first edit from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, was sold as an NFT for $750,000 at Christie’s auction, which took place from the 3rd to the 15th of December, 2021.

Wikipedia’s entry posts are a reminder of Wikipedia’s beginnings, the online encyclopedia for which every student is thankful.

“Digital sculpture comprised of “Hello, World” wiki database files, Perl CGI-script, digital rendering, URL to live website,”
read the Christie’s auction listing.

“The Birth of Wikipedia” auction also included a Strawberry iMac from 2000, where Wikipedia’s creation started. This computer sold for $187,000.

Flipside
NFT-skeptics may argue that owning a digital sculpture within a virtual space is not worth the cost.

Why you should care
With blockchain technology, one-of-a-kind collectibles, such as Wikipedia’s first edit, are easily tradable as NFTs.

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