Wara points to another facinating titbit in his post, The importance of hacker thinking
The 5 part youtube playlist, The History of Hacking
During the 1970’s, the phone phreaks or phone hackers appeared: they learned ways to hack the telephonic system and make phone calls for free.
John Draper built a ‘blue box’ that could do this and the Esquire magazine published an article on how to build them. Fascinated by this discovery, two kids, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, decided to sell these blue boxes, starting a business friendship which resulted in the founding of Apple.
Getting their laughs and skills from hacking and cracking into primitive computers and exploiting the Arpanet (predecessor to the internet), they created a novelty that would become the target of federal crackdown in years to come.
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August 19, 2007 at 9:53 pm
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Sounds like a summary of an old, but worth reading, novel “The Hacker Crackdown Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier” by Bruce Sterling http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
I’ve always thought of it as a sideshow – but a fun and interesting one.Hacking’s all about prodding around the edges, and these guys had fun.
February 26, 2009 at 7:55 am
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nice post, Thank for this reference