#nynex

…history of phone phreaking, Exploding the Phone, engineer and consultant Phil Lapsley details the story of the 1960s and 1970s culture of hackers who, like Tufte, devised numerous ways to outwit the phone system. The foreword of the book is by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple—and, as it happens, an old-school hacker himself. Before Wozniak and Steve Jobs built Apple in the 1970s, they were phone phreaks. (Wozniak’s hacker name was Berkeley Blue; Jobs’ handle was Oaf Tobar.) - Slate.

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Tim Simenon, Andy Fletcher & Martin Gore with a fan, backstage, Nynex, Manchester, England, UK (02/10/1998) Photo © robertbroj Source: robertbroj [x]; [x]

Whitney Houston live at NYNEX, 1998