My favorite 'hacker' story (It's really a phreaker story, but for the most part about the more benign, cooler parts of that culture.) is Evan Doorbell's three h

My favorite 'hacker' story (It's really a phreaker story, but for the most part about the more benign, cooler parts of that culture.) is Evan Doorbell's three hour long "How Evan became a phone phreak" which starts at a place that's very rare for a hacker story, the beginning. (Compare The Matrix, where when we first meet Neo he's already searching for Morpheus in the opening scene.) Evan recorded all the old phone sounds. (This is the man who brought you The Sounds of Long Distance) He includes these in the program as he talks, so it's almost like you took a time machine back to the seventies and stood by him with a pay phone as he tells the story. He also makes sure to explain things in the order that he figured them out, which is a subtle detail that makes the story a lot more interesting. The only thing I don't like about this entire series is that he never finished it. You never actually get to the point where Evan figures out how to Bluebox. Available here: ftp://ftp.wideweb.com/GroupBell/ (It's the "howBPhreak" files)