On: Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]

[uniqueid]

Wow, Apple was two years old at that point!

[cronix → uniqueid]

Officially, but Jobs/Woz were making and selling illegal blue tone boxes 10 years before that around 1972. They allowed you to basically steal phone time from the phone companies by simulating the sounds that nickles/dimes/quarters made when inserting them into a payphone so you didn't have to pay to use the phone for local or long distance calls.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/27/blue-box-circuit-...

[wittjeff → cronix]

A 'blue box' routed calls through the network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box A red box simulated the tones made when coins were inserted into a pay phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking)

[ChrisArchitect → wittjeff]

shrug

Everyone still called it blue boxing when you were putting tones into the phone

[teddyh → ChrisArchitect]

And people called HTML a programming language. Doesn’t make it correct.

[Daho0n → teddyh]

And people call cracking hacking and hacking cracking. How deep should we go?

[haddr → Daho0n]

and phreaking - hacking