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Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization
By Alexander R. Galloway (2004)

Twenty years since its release, this book feels more relevant than ever. The final chapter on Internet Art (1995-99) describes etoy.com's early attempts to tokenise and sell shares in art collectives, (pre-blockchain) auctions of websites as publicly accessible historical artefacts, and the cultural significance of net. art pioneers such as JODI.

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2528/ProtocolHow-Control-Exists-after-Decentralization

That’s really interesting, sounds very visionary. I’ve never heard of these tokenization attempts before. Do you know if there‘s any information available online?
Thanks for sharing 🙏
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Thanks Tim, here is an excerpt about the etoy shares. Galloway also talks specifically about etoy's toywar project which you can read more about here.

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Thanks Tim, here is an excerpt about the etoy shares. Galloway also talks specifically about etoy's toywar project which you can read more about here. https://history.etoy.com/stories/entries/49/index.html