Following in the footsteps of Tim Berners-Lee and others, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is auctioning off a piece of internet history. Starting today, you can bid in a Christie’s auction to obtain ...

The auction offered a 2000 strawberry iMac that Wales used to develop Wikipedia, and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit, made in 2001. In 2000, entrepreneur and bond trader Jimmy Wales founded Nupedia ...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has auctioned off a non-fungible token (NFT) of the first edit ever made on the site. Wales typed the words “Hello, World!” after launching Wikipedia on January 15, ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Back in January 2001, Wikipedia’s co-founder typed the words “Hello, World!” into the new internet ...

the computer Jimmy Wales used when programming the Wikipedia platform sold for a total of almost $1 million at auction. The personal computer used by Wikipedia co ...

The "Birth of Wikipedia" NFT auction is now happening at Christie's wherein a lucky buyer could purchase a computer where the internet encyclopedia was created. In addition, co-founder Jimmy Wales is ...

Christie’s has announced an online sale titled The Birth of Wikipedia, containing two items from Jimmy Wales, the founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia that “has become the largest and ...

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales tells David Plotz why trust, purpose, and transparency can make the internet — and our institutions — ...

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