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Wow, Apple was two years old at that point!
by uniqueid 6y ago
Wow, Apple was two years old at that point!
- cronix 6y agoOfficially, but Jobs/Woz were making and selling illegal blue tone boxes 10 years before that around 1972. They allowed you to basically steal phone time from the phone companies by simulating the sounds that nickles/dimes/quarters made when inserting them into a payphone so you didn't have to pay to use the phone for local or long distance calls. https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/27/blue-box-circuit-board-designed-by-steve-wozniak-to-hit-auction-block https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/27/blue-box-circuit-...
- wittjeff 6y agoA 'blue box' routed calls through the network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box A red box simulated the tones made when coins were inserted into a pay phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking)
- ChrisArchitect 6y agoshrug Everyone still called it blue boxing when you were putting tones into the phone