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Wikipedia is selling an NFT of its first edit from co-founder Jimmy Wales that reads 'hello world!'
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Wikipedia and Christie's.
You can now own a remnant of the early days of Wikipedia.
Christie's is auctioning Jimmy Wales' first-ever edit — which read «Hello, World!» — as a non-fungible token. The strawberry-colored Apple computer on which Wales helped found the online encyclopedia is also for sale. The auction, titled «The Birth of Wikipedia,» will take place from December 3 to December 15.
Wikipedia launched more than two decades ago on January 15, 2001, with Wales' inaugural edit, «and even today, I'm still amazed at the size and breadth of what it has become,» he said in a statement.
The NFT shows the nascent layout of the site and will allow the eventual owner to make edits of their own to the page, which will revert to its original
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