Editing Internet Oracle (section)

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'''The Internet Oracle''' (historically known as '''The Usenet Oracle''') is an effort at collective [[humor]] in a pseudo-[[Socratic method|Socratic]] question-and-answer format.

A user sends a question ("tellme") to the Oracle via [[e-mail]], or the Internet Oracle website, and it is sent to another user (another "incarnation" of the Oracle) who may answer it. Meanwhile, the original questioner is also sent a question to answer. All exchanges are conducted through a central distribution system which makes all users anonymous. Unanswered questions are returned to the queue after a day or two. Users may also request ("askme") unanswered questions without posing their own.

A completed question-and-answer pair is called an "Oracularity".