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Steve Wozniak had 888-8888 for a while. Which is a très cool number to have, but he was getting hundreds of calls with nothing but random sounds in the backgrou
by chiph 3y ago
Steve Wozniak had 888-8888 for a while. Which is a très cool number to have, but he was getting hundreds of calls with nothing but random sounds in the background. Eventually he figured out that babies were pushing the buttons on their parent's phones, and all-eights were apparently easy for them to press.
https://www.wired.com/1998/09/woz/ https://www.wired.com/1998/09/woz/
- water-data-dude 3y agoHelluva good read! The early days of personal computing were wild, super interesting time :)