Research Question: “How does ‘ask Peter’ work?
Research Question Refined: “What is the secret behind ‘Peter Answers’?
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Definition:
Direct Quote: “A case in point is a website that’s been growing in popularity among the prankster community called Ask Peter, or Peter Answers. It comes complete with creepy Old English font and a copyright line at the bottom that adds to the intrigue, “Peter Answers 3.5 – Virtual Tarot – Original idea: Wizard 666.”
(5 April, 1 PM)
Direct quote: “The Peter Answers (or peteranswers.com) Computer Prank is a magical virus, pure and simple.”
(5 April, 1:42 PM)
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How to start:
Paraphrase: You must petition Peter with the sentence, “Peter, please answer the following question:” before you ask a question.
(5 April, 1:10 PM)
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How it works:
Direct Quote: “The magic really happens when you bring in a second person who knows Peter’s terrible secret (after reading this article, that will be you!) The second person needs to type in the petition and question for you, and then you’ll get the answer – which is usually remarkably accurate.”
(5 April, 1:15 PM)
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The secret of the trick:
Direct quote: “in the “Petition” field, just type a “.” and start typing the answer to the question that you’re going to ask in the next field. At the end of the answer, type another “.” and then continue typing the rest of “Peter, please answer the following question:” To the person sitting next to you, it only appears as though you’ve typed that one question”
(5 April, 1:30 PM)
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A closer Look:
Direct Quote: “It appears that when each keyboard key is pressed (the onKeyPress event handler), a function is called that returns a character. What character is really returned? If you look at the function for each field, they appear identical, but they’re not. One is named with a leading letter O, two zeroes and three trailing letter O’s again. The second function is named with a leading letter O, a zero, another letter O and four trailing zeroes.” See picture: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/peter-work-code-prank/
(5 April, 2 PM)
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What the closer look means:
Direct quote: “It means that instead of one, single function handling the text that gets entered into each field and returning a text value to the field, there are actually four distinct functions handling every individual keypress” (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/peter-work-code-prank/)
(5 April, 2:12 PM)
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Website:
(5 April, 2:22 PM)
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