If you search for Poe on the Internet, you may be surprised. The first hit on Google, for example, will not be Edgar Allan Poe, as you might expect, but an expansion of the letters in the word “poe” as an anagram, first as the game Path of Exile, and later as the electrical term power over ethernet. Dig deep enough and poe will stand for portfolio of evidence and even become a unit of literary fear. In the classic movie Dr. Strangelove (1964) “poe” was the recall code for nuclear weapons. Where then is the Poe site you were looking for?
Okay, let’s go directly to the website called Poe.com. Another surprise: Poe.com is now an AI chat site. How did this happen? It turns out that in 1996 the Professional Office Equipment company created the Poe.com site as an anagram of its three initial letters POE. The...
