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This book is a great read and gives an amazing overview of the culture: https://smile.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Outlaws-ebook/dp/B009SAV5W0?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect#navbar https://smile.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Ou... The group chats must of been so cool at that time.

chillingeffect 10y ago
It was fun. One of the interesting aspects of it (there were many) was the class of people who could share numbers via DTMF. They had build touch-tone decoders that could log the last 10-20 digits they heard. It separated the elite from the amateurs.