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They are though? They have the name Alan MacMasters, same as the fake inventor > "Alan MacMasters, 30, is an aerospace engineer from London "and not the invent
by RugnirViking 4y ago
They are though? They have the name Alan MacMasters, same as the fake inventor
> "Alan MacMasters, 30, is an aerospace engineer from London "and not the inventor of the toaster", he assures me with a giggle. "You shouldn't just believe everything you read on the internet."
> I feel nervous about the possibility of falling prey to another prank. So I ask Alan to send me a photo of his passport, which he does. He is not lying: even if he lacks the voluminous quiff of his namesake, he really is Alan MacMasters
- bombcar 4y agoThe "hoaxer" was Alan's friend Alex.
- xbmcuser 4y agoNo Alex just changed the name it was Alan that embellished and perpetuated for it years after that
- tedunangst 4y agoWhich article did you read? > Alex felt mischievous, and wondered how far his prank could go. He asked himself what would happen if he created a Wikipedia article entirely devoted to the supposed inventor of the toaster. > To illustrate it, Alex grabbed a photo of himself and edited it to look like an image from the 1800s - this was the very same photo that, years later, would catch Adam's eye.
- stavros 4y agoHis full name is Alex Jackson, it says so on Wikipedia.
- monkpit 4y agoConfusingly, the people in this story are named Adam, Alan, and Alex. Alex did the first actual edit.
- bombcar 4y agoThe temptation to correctly identify them as the founding members of what later was backronymed to the American Automobile Association (AAA) is rising ....