John Markoff & Stewart Brand: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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Phone Freaks
A loose group of people began to mess around with telephone networks in the late 1950s. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would later go on to found Apple. At first they used whistles but eventually these freaks devised machines called blue boxes that generated the tones required.
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