Name: Phone Phreaks - Jurassic Web (1/7)
Uploaded: 2020-09-14T00:00:00.000+02:00
Duration: 425 s
Description: In the 1960s some nerdish kids figured out how to hack phone lines in the USA, creating a playful shared space to meet up and chat. But this would soon attract the attention of the authorities.

Jurassic Web (1/7)

Jurassic Web

Phone Phreaks

I pirati del telefono

Piratas del teléfono

Piraci telefonii

In the 1960s some nerdish kids figured out how to hack phone lines in the USA, creating a playful shared space to meet up and chat. But this would soon attract the attention of the authorities.

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A Prehistory of Social Media

<p>In the 1960s some nerdish kids figured out how to hack phone lines in the USA, creating a playful shared space to meet up and chat. But this would soon attract the attention of the authorities.</p>

In the 1960s some nerdish kids figured out how to hack phone lines in the USA, creating a playful shared space to meet up and talk. But this would soon attract the attention of the authorities.

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