Strawberry iMac

Auctioned by Christie’s online for US$187,500

Sold alongside an NFT of Wikipedia’s first edit (which was snapped up for US$750,000), this Strawberry iMac used by Jimmy Wales in the creation of Wikipedia was part of an online sale entitled The Birth of Wikipedia.

The co-founder of the online nonprofit encyclopaedia used his personal computer for development and research at the time of the website’s launch in 2001, monitoring the site’s early development and witnessing its rapid expansion. A portion of the sale proceeds went to Wales’s alternative social media network pilot project WT.Social, and to support a number of charities working in the free culture world.