In 2001, Jimmy Wales typed twelve words: “This is the new WikiPedia!” — the first edit on Wikipedia. Twenty years later he sold a recreation of it as an NFT for $750,000. Nearly a million dollars for twelve words.
Full episode: Wikipedia — The Encyclopedia Anyone Could Edit (2001), on Internet Time Machine.
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