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1996 Internet Hoax: \“Glock 3\“
Posted By:
Nick Woomer
Dec 06, 2004
 Somehow one of the first big Internet hoaxes of the 1990s has been forgotten on the Museum of Hoaxes website: Glock 3.

This article first appeared on Dec. 5, 1996 in The Washington Post "The Homey Home Page; Newspaper Taken In by Gang Site Hoax":
http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/121196/gansta.html

Here is the original report on Glock 3, exposing it as a hoax:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199610/msg00076.html

As a quick Lexis search indicates, Glock 3 was also mentioned in Newsweek's "Perspective" section on Dec. 16, 1996, and a lot of other major publications.

Obviously, this post is pretty self-serving -- since I was the kid responsible for developing the original site and eventually admitting that it was fake -- but I can't let the most important work of my high school career go unnoticed.
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Devin Miller
in iwakuni japan
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 | 08:59 PM
if you really are who you say you are the man who started glock 3 then i know you counter part one mr. Jacob Brookover ... he is my highschool techer and told our class about glock 3 well i thought it was brilliant well later

Devin
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