telephone

Friday, July 17, 2009
Phones

Phreaking The Phones: Before There Was Hacking

12:40AM Brian Lam | Before there were computer hackers, there were phreakers. And before there were macs, Jobs and Woz kept themselves busy building their own blue boxes (Above) which would emulate precise control tones to seize control of the phone system. More »
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Entertainment

Telephone Tone Musical Puts Some Real Life Musicians to Shame

3:30AM Jack Loftus | This video makes the 15-odd years I put toward practicing and performing with a musical instrument to shame, and I’m pretty sure this guy probably set this all up in an afternoon. Sick, nevertheless. [ExciteChina via Random Good Stuff] More »
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Gadgets

First-Ever Phone Directory and Instruction Manual to Be Auctioned

2:10AM Addy Dugdale | This is the world’s first phone directory—and it’s going up for sale next month in New York at Christie’s auctioneers. The Telephone Directory, Volume 1, Number 1, for New Haven, Connecticut, aptly enough, is, at 20 pages, more of a pamphlet than the kind of thing that big strong men rip in half to make the ladies swoon (and us geeks shrug and say, “SFW?”) But the funniest thing about The Telephone Directory (apart from the estimated price) is the first eight pages—which are instructions on how to use the telephone.
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