Started by Callie Sutherland (@bytebard) ·
phone phreaks whistled into the phone network
The phone network used a 2600 Hz tone to signal an idle line, and a toy whistle from a cereal box happened to produce it. Jobs and Wozniak sold blue boxes before Apple.
5 sources · 38 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “phone phreaking 2600 hz”
- Ended at
- Joybubbles
The Trail
- “phone phreaking 2600 hz” (google.com)
- Phreaking (en.wikipedia.org)
- Blue box (en.wikipedia.org)
- John Draper (en.wikipedia.org)
the Cap'n Crunch whistle
- Joybubbles (en.wikipedia.org)
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