resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 days agoBorn blind in 1949, a 7-year-old bypassed AT&T to make free calls for 14 years by whistling a 2600Hz tone. Engineers took two decades to catch him before he became a Buddhist monk named Joybubbles.lemmy.todayimagemessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: interestingasfuck
arrow-up170arrow-down1imageBorn blind in 1949, a 7-year-old bypassed AT&T to make free calls for 14 years by whistling a 2600Hz tone. Engineers took two decades to catch him before he became a Buddhist monk named Joybubbles.lemmy.todayresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square8linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: interestingasfuck
minus-squareTIEPilotBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·13 days agoI miss 2600 magazine, where it got its name for the 2600Hz AT&T hack (and the phone phreak Capt Crunch). Ah the good ole days
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 days agoI just realized how the alt.2600 news group got it’s name.
minus-squareTIEPilotBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 days agoI so miss USENET back before the pdf’s fucked it all up. I mean it was always there, but it blew up when newsgroups became popular. Same w/ Panzer servers and BBS’s, porn ruined it all.
I miss 2600 magazine, where it got its name for the 2600Hz AT&T hack (and the phone phreak Capt Crunch). Ah the good ole days
I just realized how the
alt.2600news group got it’s name.I so miss USENET back before the pdf’s fucked it all up. I mean it was always there, but it blew up when newsgroups became popular.
Same w/ Panzer servers and BBS’s, porn ruined it all.