Steve Jobs' 1973 Job Application Once Again Up For Auction, In Physical and NFT Form

A London-based entrepreneur is putting a 1973 job application filled out by Steve Jobs up for auction. "The form Jobs apparently filled out for an unspecified position at an unspecified company will be available to buy either as a purportedly authenticated physical good or in digital form, as a nonfungible token, or NFT," reports CNET. From the report: The job application's gone up for auction several times before, selling in 2017 for $18,750, in 2018 for $174,757, and just this last March for a reported $222,400. The auction's organizer, Olly Joshi, is hoping to sweeten the pot by taking bids for the physical and a new NFT version side by side. Bidding starts July 21. "The Steve Jobs hand-written 1973 job application auction aims to highlight the modern shift in perceived value -- the physical or the digital," he said in a statement. The auction will run for seven days, during which people seeking the physical version can bid through Joshi's website, which is being run off an auctioneering app called Snoofa. People hoping to snag the digital version can go to popular NFT marketplace Rarible.

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Re: LOL @ bitcoin boomer logic

[e3m4n]

Obi Wan: who is more foolish; the fool or The fool who follows him?

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Stop publishing this shit

[Dwedit]

Just. Stop. Posting. NFT. Stories.

NFTs are a worthless scam, and only media attention will make people think they have any worth or purpose.

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[phantomfive]

This one's different. It has a physical form.

But it's even more insane

[bug_hunter]

So you can bid on either the physical item or the NFT.
But if I understand the article correctly, they're being auctioned individually.

So someone can get the physical copy, and somebody else can own the "digital" copy.
So if I was to win the NFT, I still have no claim of the physical thing that spawned the digital copy.

So just as pointless as ever I think.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

NFTs are a worthless scam, and only media attention will make people think they have any worth or purpose.

Well, obviously, that's why we keep seeing new stories about NFTs. They figure this sort of media whoring has worked for the Bitcoin shills, and the NFT shills would like to make some easy money too.

In the old days, these guys would probably all be counterfeiters.

NFT+

[nullchar]

What's stopping the owner of the physical copy from creating another NFT?

Seems the NFT only has "value" (in, as we all know, an exaggerated sense) if the physical copy was destroyed.

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[Barny]

What's stopping anyone creating another NFT (with a different NFT host)?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Did he get hired?

[nocoiner]

Is it strictly just that one page? Seems a rather 'light' application - I'm guessing it's perhaps the kind that were handed out in college campus job fairs?

Actually a twofer

[Frank Burly]

Because the handwriting is all Wozniak's

Applying for a job sure was easier back then..

[takochan]

Applying for a job sure was easier back then.. a simple 1 page form.
I remember from my younger days, most forms were pretty simple too, even for reasonable jobs.

Ever try to use these new fangled web based 'Applicant Tracking Systems' that most companies use these days? What a nightmare..

No wonder companies can never "find" any "qualified" candidates..

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[monkeyxpress]

Not only that, but Jobs commented (according to his autobiography anyway) that one of the reasons he took the risk with starting Apple was that he figured if it didn't work out he'd just go get another cosy technician job. In other words he didn't feel he had anything to lose - a comfortable existence in the middle class was a given, even though he didn't have a college degree.

Just think about that for a minute. When I graduated 20 years ago, being a part of the middle class was also a given if you had a de

Well this is stupid

[DrXym]

If you bid on the digital copy, the other winner could just absolutely wreck its value any time they wanted just by selling their own scans.

No Phone?

[alaskana98]

I think it's amusing that for his address he put 'Reed College' and for phone he put 'none'. I know this was the early 1970's (and ironically he would go on to start a company known for creating one of the most iconic 'phones' in history), but most people then had access to at least a phone in a group setting. How the heck were they supposed to reach him if he got the job?

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[hawk]

It was typical, at least then, for a college to have a mail system.

If a letter was addressed to him by name at the college, it likely would have made it to his mailbox. (and likely with a note from postmom telling him to include his box number next time!)

My opinion

[Ikatruna]

To be honest, this is nonsense for me. Because it is simply pointless to sell a thing that no one needs for such money. But on the other hand, they will really show how much the Internet has entered deeply into our lives. I wanted to share the site [pocketnewsalert.com] where I started freelancing. Since I started, and this is already 2 years, I have not found a better site.