hacker history - off the hook

[Stankfoot]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Anybody ever go to the '2600 - The Hacker Quarterly' web site? Back in the 90s I used to listen to a radio program called 'Off The Hook&quot; on WBAI about 'phone phreaking' and hacking. If you can believe it in the early 90s the Internet was not available so people got off screwing around with the phone system. The audio from the old shows is available on the site. Its pretty 'dry' so only geeks should bother checking it out</font></p><p><a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/posttopic.cfm/Forum/">&nbsp;http://www.2600.com/offthehook</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Here's a good episode:</font></p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">3/13/91 -&nbsp; </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">T</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">he death of the New York Telephone repair computer, calling New York Telephone customer service and news department, how hacker bulletin boards are disappearing, how to start hacking, confusion over a &quot;2126T&quot; recording, a demonstration of different types of busy signals.&nbsp; Phiber Optik (famous hacker) makes his first appearance. </font> </p><p><a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/posttopic.cfm/Forum/">http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1991/0391.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">That's right - a demonstration of different types of busy signals. Why are you still reading this?</font></p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">You should have clicked on the link by now.....</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[JustJon]

<p>[quote]<span class="postbody"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">If you can believe it in the early 90s the Internet was not available so people got off screwing around with the phone system.[/quote</font></span>]</p><p>I was on the internet in the early 90s.&nbsp; And because the web wasn't wide spread yet, it was all text oriented and hacking, phreaking and all the other underground things you would find in 2600 were openly available on the 'net on newsgroups, gopher and other technologies that have faded away quite a bit.&nbsp;</p>

[TheMojoPin]

Did you &quot;hack the planet,&quot; Zero Cool?

[angrymissy]

I lovvved this kind of stuff back then.&nbsp; You could download the text files off of the local BBS'...&nbsp;

[JustJon]

<strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br />Did you &quot;hack the planet,&quot; Zero Cool?<p>&nbsp;no, I hacked the Gibson.</p>

[TheMojoPin]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br />Did you &quot;hack the planet,&quot; Zero Cool? <p>&nbsp;no, I hacked the Gibson.</p><p>Psh.&nbsp; I knocked Fisher Stevens off of his skateboard for looking like a 'tard.</p>

[rooter]

<strong>angrymissy</strong> wrote:<br />I lovvved this kind of stuff back then. You could download the text files off of the local BBS'... <p>&nbsp;</p><p>You would love this:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbsdocumentary.com" target="_blank" title="BBS Documentary"> BBS Documentary&nbsp;</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I bought the DVD, but you can get it legally via Bit Torrent.&nbsp;</p>

[feralBoy]

back in the day, I built one of those boxes that would replicate the tones when you entered quarters in a phone, so you could get free phone calls.&nbsp; I guess that's not hacking though.&nbsp; I guess it's phreaking.&nbsp; Fun shit though.

[JustJon]

<strong>feralBoy</strong> wrote:<br />back in the day, I built one of those boxes that would replicate the tones when you entered quarters in a phone, so you could get free phone calls. I guess that's not hacking though. I guess it's phreaking. Fun shit though.<p>&nbsp;You mean a red box?&nbsp; Those were fun to make.&nbsp; I had friends who sold them in college.&nbsp; After a while too many people were using them on campus that the phone company wised up and they stopped working.</p>

[angrymissy]

<strong>feralBoy</strong> wrote:<br />back in the day, I built one of those boxes that would replicate the tones when you entered quarters in a phone, so you could get free phone calls. I guess that's not hacking though. I guess it's phreaking. Fun shit though.<p>&nbsp;Some one gave me one of those when we were in inschool suspension together !&nbsp; Fun times<br /> </p>

[Stankfoot]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="+1">- 06 / 10 / 92 -</font> </p><p> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="+1"> <img src="http://www.2600.com/offthehook/images/capt_s2.gif" border="0" alt="S" width="24" height="25" align="left" /> crewed up intro theme, a gay BBS in Boston (Doug's Den) is raided, high tech voting in Nova Scotia, <span style="background-color: #ffff99">a demonstration of touch tones, MF tones, the 2600 tone, red box tones, and silver box tones.</span> Also: Emmanuel demonstrates how donating money to a PBS station turned into a privacy violation.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/replytotopic.cfm/Forum/93/Topic/55832/currentpage/"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1992/0692.html" target="_blank"> http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1992/0692.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p> <span class="post_edited"></span>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Stankfoot on 1-20-07 @ 7:53 AM</span>

[cougarjake13]

<strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br />Did you &quot;hack the planet,&quot; Zero Cool? <p>&nbsp;no, I hacked the Gibson.</p><p>Psh.&nbsp; I knocked Fisher Stevens off of his skateboard for looking like a 'tard.</p><p>that where my love affair with angelina jolie began</p>

[Wallower]

<p>I&nbsp;too built a red box. There was no one I needed to call.</p>