Watch the co-founder of Apple blast his way through a game of Tetris and talk about the adventures that this game and GameBoy Light have given him throughout his life.
Jump over the break to watch the co-founder of Apple blast his way through a game of Tetris and talk about the adventures that this game and GameBoy Light have given him throughout his life…
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Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel.
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system.
Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before.
But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.
Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel.
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Steve tells how he and the other Steve built illegal Blue Boxes to make free long distance calls, and how there would be no Apple today if they hadn’t been such hooligans
Steve tells how he and the other Steve built illegal Blue Boxes to make free long distance calls, and how there would be no Apple today if they hadn’t been such hooligans.
