Wikipedia's first edit, 'Hello, World!', to be sold as NFT by Co-founder
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Friday, 3 December, 2021 Wikipedia Co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (NFT) of the first edit made to the site's homepage after launching it on 15 January, 2001, that reads "Hello World!". As per Christie's, the buyer of the NFT will be able to edit the page. Wales is also auctioning a strawberry-coloured iMac computer he used while working on the site.