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Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year

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Our annual highlights of the auction year reached a crescendo in this post-2021 coverage - the most explosive growth, the most ridiculous lots, and dozens of examples of the most expensive items in history ... not to mention the most bizarre lots we've yet seen. The most intriguing of them all was the sale by tender of (most of) the cars from the 2015 movie, “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.

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Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year

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Our annual highlights of the auction year reached a crescendo in this post-2021 coverage - the most explosive growth, the most ridiculous lots, and dozens of examples of the most expensive items in history ... not to mention the most bizarre lots we've yet seen. The most intriguing of them all was the sale by tender of (most of) the cars from the 2015 movie, “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.

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Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

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Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises

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Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows large organizations and governments to build applications that put users in control of their data. Berners-Lee has always believed that the web should be free and open, but large organizations have grown up […] Continue reading Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises→

SOLID Promises A New Approach To How The Web Works

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As it stands on the modern Internet, your data is no longer your own. Your emails, photos, and posts all live on servers owned by large corporations. Their policies give them access to your data, which is mined to generate advertising revenue. And if you want your data back, there …read more

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SOLID Promises A New Approach To How The Web Works

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As it stands on the modern Internet, your data is no longer your own. Your emails, photos, and posts all live on servers owned by large corporations. Their policies give them access to your data, which is mined to generate advertising revenue. And if you want your data back, there …read more

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Tim Berners-Lee: Monopolies and Lack of Public Infrastructure Are Ruining the Web

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The world wide web, the information space we all use to connect on the internet, is 29 years old. Its founder, Tim Berners-Lee, wants the world to come together to close the digital divide. Continue reading Tim Berners-Lee: Monopolies and Lack of Public Infrastructure Are Ruining the Web→

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Wins $1 Million Turing Award 2016

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — has won this year’s A.M. Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Turing Award is named after Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of German Enigma cipher and

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On This Day 25-years Ago, The World’s First Website Went Online

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On this day 25 years ago, August 6, 1991, the world’s first website went live to the public from a lab in the Swiss Alps.

So Happy 25th Birthday, WWW! It’s the Silver Jubilee of the world’s first website.

The site was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, … Continue reading On This Day 25-years Ago, The World’s First Website Went Online→