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by xbmcuser 1309 days ago
No Alex just changed the name it was Alan that embellished and perpetuated for it years after that
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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.