sothebys
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Tim Berners-Lee Sells NFT of the Source Code for the World Wide Web for $7 Million
The foundation of the web is worth $US5.4 ($7) million, apparently. In an online auction at Sotheby’s today, founder of the modern internet Tim Berners-Lee sold an NFT of the source code for the World Wide Web, which he authored in 1989. Berners-Lee has said he plans to donate the money to yet-unspecified charitable causes.…
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Former NASA Intern Scores $3 Million For Moon Landing Tapes He Bought At Auction
Former NASA intern Gary George sold off three of the agency’s videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing for $US1.82 ($3) million at auction house Sotheby’s on Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the event, CNN reported.
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Rare 1932 Movie Poster For The Mummy Expected To Fetch Over $1 Million At Sotheby’s Auction
The 1932 version of The Mummy starring Boris Karloff is one of the greatest horror movies ever made, right up there with the 1930s versions of Dracula and Frankenstein. And now an extremely rare movie poster for The Mummy could become the most expensive in the world after it goes up for auction starting yesterday…
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Inside Jony Ive’s Extraordinary (And Very Expensive) Sotheby’s Auction
Jony Ive creates objects that end up in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. But for his latest trick — a RED charity auction at Sotheby’s tomorrow afternoon — he and designer Marc Newson are offering up something else: the one-of-a-kind.