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by bombcar 1301 days ago
The "hoaxer" was Alan's friend Alex.
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Confusingly, the people in this story are named Adam, Alan, and Alex.

Alex did the first actual edit.

The temptation to correctly identify them as the founding members of what later was backronymed to the American Automobile Association (AAA) is rising ....
No Alex just changed the name it was Alan that embellished and perpetuated for it years after that
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.

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