Exploding The Phone

The untold story of phone phreaks: the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell.

[Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete]

People always ask me “how do you develop taste?” And I say “go to the niche telephone museum and study the origin of buttons and don’t be a little bitch”

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@tnmoc Hey there. I will be over in the UK later this year and was wondering if you'd be interested in my giving a talk on the phone phreaks and what we can learn from the first network hackers? Thx!

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@maxleiter Brilliant.

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@tommithetechie I have fond (?) Memories of using one of these attached to a VAX 11/750 at NASA Ames in 1985. We called it the “GDPOS tape drive.” I’ll let you figure out what that stands for.

[Mehdi @MehdiHacks]

My workshop got featured by @Elektor!

https://t.co/TcKHH2qx3B

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@SevensRequiem Honored to be in that list!

[Tommi @tommithetechie]

This is a Mark-8 minicomputer, a 1974 do-it-yourself microcomputer design built around the Intel 8008. It is often remembered as one of the earliest microprocessor-based computers aimed at hobbyists, published as a build-it-yourself project in Radio-Electronics magazine.

Fun fact: machines like this were wonderfully hands-on, and the front panel used physical switches and indicator lights instead of anything we’d think of as a modern user interface today. Just looking at that row of switches makes me appreciate how much early personal computing expected from its users.

https://t.co/GsUAZCJgWH
#RetroTech #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory

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@rogerbanderson Aww. Thanks, Roger!

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@lisanapoli @CNN Such a great book!

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@sdf_pubnix @UofIllinois Such a good book!

[Daily McMaster-Carr @McMasterDaily]

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More at https://t.co/M5bxTxpW9x

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Rachael Morrison's wonderful Joybubbles documentary will be showing in San Francisco, San Rafael, Boston, Ann Arbor, and having an international premiere in Warsaw, Poland. Details in thread!

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Cinetopia, Ann Arbor, MI
Sunday May 17 at noon

*audio description headsets and captioning devices available

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Millenium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw, Poland
May 8-17
Specific dates, times, and ticket sales forthcoming
*filmmaker Rachael J Morrison in person for Q&A’s

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MOMI: First Look co-presented with Reelablities, NYC
Saturday May 2 at 2pm
*open audio description and open captions
*filmmaker Rachael J Morrison in person for Q&A

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DocLands, San Rafael, CA
Friday May 1 at 7:30pm
*audio description headsets and captioning devices available

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IFFBoston, Boston, MA
Monday April 27 at 5:30pm
*audio description headsets and captioning devices available

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San Francisco International Film Festival
Saturday April 25 at 3:30pm
*open audio description and open captions
*filmmaker Rachael J Morrison, interviewee Phil Lapsley, and producer Will Butler in person for Q&A