[RugnirViking]

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]

The "hoaxer" was Alan's friend Alex.

[monkpit]

Confusingly, the people in this story are named Adam, Alan, and Alex.

Alex did the first actual edit.

[bombcar]

The temptation to correctly identify them as the founding members of what later was backronymed to the American Automobile Association (AAA) is rising ....

[xbmcuser]

No Alex just changed the name it was Alan that embellished and perpetuated for it years after that

[tedunangst]

Which 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]

His full name is Alex Jackson, it says so on Wikipedia.