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Here's a fun fact: in the photo of the Byte Shop, the person in the window with their back to the camera is John Draper, the legendary hacker known as Captain C
by robterrell 1y ago
Here's a fun fact: in the photo of the Byte Shop, the person in the window with their back to the camera is John Draper, the legendary hacker known as Captain Crunch.
- BizarroLand 1y agoI've been fascinated with the phreaks ever since I downloaded my first copy of the anarchists guide off my local BBS.
- nxobject 1y agoYou might like Evan Doorbell's YT channel then – he has a lot of old tapes from his misspent youth traveling the world on Ma Bell's dime, and has posted a lot of videos explaining it all for a generation (like mine) without any frame of reference. https://www.youtube.com/@evandoorbell4278 https://www.youtube.com/@evandoorbell4278
- plapsley 1y agoEvan's stuff is excellent and worth watching/listening to. Shameless plug: if you like his stuff, you might also like my book, "Exploding The Phone", which is a history of phone phreaking. https://explodingthephone.com/ https://explodingthephone.com/ Evan narrated the Audible version. :-)
- panzagl 1y agoI enjoyed your book, made sense of a lot of things 13 year old me had stumbled upon that I could never get to work (as I was maybe 5 years too late).
- plapsley 1y agoThat's awesome, thank you!
- throwaway9191aa 1y agoI very much recommend this book as well. Great read. Thanks for writing it!
- RF_Savage 1y agoExploding The Phone was an excellent read.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoWild. How do we know that? (Is that his VW outside?)
- robterrell 1y agoMy uncle is Paul Terrell, the owner of that Byte Shop. He showed me the photo and told me who was in the window. But I don't have an independent verification of this -- dunno, maybe Captain Crunch is a lurker here?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoVery cool.
- vram22 1y agoAlmost like the Putnam question on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=win%20Putnam%3F&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...