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Sometime around 1979 or 1980 someone gave me a slip of paper with a phone number and said "Dial this with a modem." I did, it answered "Pentagon TIP," and befo
by jeffbarr 10y ago
Sometime around 1979 or 1980 someone gave me a slip of paper with a phone number and said "Dial this with a modem."
I did, it answered "Pentagon TIP," and before too long I was roving around the ARPANET. If memory serves me right the main command was "C" for connect. You simply typed "C" and a small number, and then logged in as "guest"/"guest" (the world was smaller and more innocent back then). I'm fairly certain that I logged in to a system at UC Berkeley.
- syngrog66 10y agonice. that was also a time when every geeky kid kinda secretly feared (or hoped) you might stumble into a system which, after login, would prompt you with: "Welcome! Would you like to play a game of global thermonuclear war?" and then you really would be worried you were connected to the Pentagon
- lb1lf 10y agoI did sort of the opposite back in the very early nineties - I had my MicroVAX ID as a Norwegian DoD machine when anyone dialed it. That netted me a few laughs as friends got confused - and a summons to see the local police a few weeks later; apparently, someone had thought it WAS indeed a DoD box, reported the security breach and the next thing my local PD knew, the security services called and asked them to tell me it was quite funny and all that - but STOP DOING IT!!!