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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has put part of the history of the Internet up for auction, as Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s chief developer, has done. This was reported by 3dnews.
The NFT token of the first edition of the Wikipedia project is available at Christie’s auction together with the crimson-coloured Apple iMac used to work on the site.
The initial bid is only $ 100 for the token, but when the auction ends, on December 15, the final bid will be some million dollars. Proceeds from the sale of lots are going to go for charity, as well as the social network WT Social, created by Jimmy Wales, which he possesses as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter.
He made a decision to sell the first edition of Wikipedia as an NFT token in part because the technology allows for the public capture and certification of ownership. “I think it’s particularly interesting that for the first time ever, we’ve got something like an uneditable public database,” Mr Wales mentioned in the interview.
Upon completion of the auction, the new owner will be able to control the web page of the site. As of today, anyone will be able to edit the content, but in 5 minutes time it will return to its original state with the text “Hello, World!”. The artistic idea, says the author, is to bring people back to the moment when he established everything and thought: “It is necessary, how defenceless it is! Anyone can make an edit. In five minutes I will be captured by trolls and everything will be destroyed. “
The NFT owner will have the ability to change the durability of the editing period, disable editing or even block the page. “Under a free license, like everything on Wikipedia. If you want to do something, you can do it, ” Wales explained.
Sources : https://slate.com/technology/2021/12/jimmy-wales-birth-of-wikipedia-nft-auction.html