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This happened on a smaller scale—and more innocently—in the world of video game journalism, during the golden age of Alternate Reality Games, when "PixelVixen70
by mintplant 9y ago
This happened on a smaller scale—and more innocently—in the world of video game journalism, during the golden age of Alternate Reality Games, when "PixelVixen707" was revealed as a fictional character in a promo campaign for a novel.
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- lloydde 9y agoYour comment triggered me to remember “Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely