Exploding The Phone @ExplodeThePhone
The untold story of phone phreaks: the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell. explodingthephone.com Oakland, CA Joined October 2012-
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A West German answering machine from 1973. @ExplodeThePhone
A West German answering machine from 1973. @ExplodeThePhone
Another episode in the series looked at the telephone: youtube.com/watch?v=7R9bHJ… @ExplodeThePhone
In the early days of radio, Americans were encouraged to tour the country using their radio receivers. Here's an excerpt from 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘪𝘳 by Tom Lewis:
@ExplodeThePhone A story of a Vermont man who's bringing old payphones back to life but is making them free this time around: youtube.com/watch?v=DwXTUM…
One of my favorite projects in a while! I found this brand new, never-installed, still in the box payphone. It's a Nortel Millennium Digital, common in the 90s and 00s. The first problem is that it needs to connect to the phone company for rates and tables, etc, so I had to…
I've been trying to sell this Imsai for several weeks with local pickup, you arrange shipping and possible mobile local pickup. No takers. So I finally added shipping and listed it on ePay. ebay.com/itm/2568955518…
Ever wonder why your household measuring tape shows metric and imperial units of length? Who really uses both? That’s right: nobody! The latest tool in Mini-Circuits' growing line of measurement accessories: a tape for measuring frequencies from 300 kHz to 300 GHz. #aprilfools
Théo Z V Champion is the author of this gorgeous, carefully detailed retro build, which uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to play a poem when you lift the receiver of a 1980s French Socotel S63 rotary telephone. From issue 152 of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, out now:…
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Technicians monitor TV transmission quality in the switching center for AT&T's Long Lines Department in New York, 1966.
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A six-part series about the creation of ARPANET and the birth of the Internet.
A six-part series about the creation of ARPANET and the birth of the Internet.
@ExplodeThePhone Here's more about it: illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early-b…
@ExplodeThePhone This 1939 BBC TV broadcast, which took viewers behind the scenes of a telephone exchange, must have been fascinating:
@ExplodeThePhone This 1939 BBC TV broadcast, which took viewers behind the scenes of a telephone exchange, must have been fascinating:

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