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This is such a great site. Any of Evan Doorbell's "How I Became a Phone Phreak" or "Sounds of Long Distance" are especially great.

Rachael Morrison and her team poured their heart into this and it shows... it is just so good. (Disclaimer: I was interviewed for the movie and narrate parts of it.) See it if you …

Rachael Morrison, the director, was kind enough to invite me to the premier at Sundance, since she interviewed me for the film. She and her crew did an amazing job. She found so mu…

Hey Fogus! A few links or resources you might enjoy: * Nationwide Operator Toll Dialing, 1945: https://explodingthephone.com/hoppdocs/nootd1945.pdf * General Switching Plan for Tel…

That's awesome, thank you!

Evan's stuff is excellent and worth watching/listening to. Shameless plug: if you like his stuff, you might also like my book, "Exploding The Phone", which is a history of phone ph…

Thanks for the mention and honored to be in the same mention as Soni and Goodman's book on Shannon!

CCITT (ITU-T) version can be downloaded for free (!) from their website. https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Q.140-Q.180-198811-I/en Specific download link in English is https://www.itu.…

Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_System_No._5 SS5 was derived from AT&T's US MF signaling system, described in "Signaling Systems for Control of Telephone Switching…

Yes! This is what I concluded when, a few years back, I did a similar analysis to what matthiasl posted. If you're interested in this kind of thing, please check out my book, Explo…

Oh yeah. Something I was so interested in, I wrote a history book about it: https://explodingthephone.com/ If you like old documents, check out, e.g., https://explodingthephone.com…

If you want something really ancient, check out YIPL/TAP, which was the first phone phreak newsletter (started publishing in May 1971) that was the granddaddy of 2600. You can get …

Thank you, appreciate the plug! :-)

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks for the kind words, they mean a lot!

That's a very kind question, thanks! In terms of what I get in the end, it doesn't really matter where you buy it (e.g., Amazon, local bookstore, whatever), although I'd love it if…

Thanks for the heads up! I'll attend to that!

Shameless plug for my book on the history of the subject, for those interested: https://explodingthephone.com/

Author of Exploding The Phone here, thanks for the mention and glad you enjoyed it! One thing I did that I'm pretty proud of is that I put almost all the research documents that I …

Shameless plug for my book on the history of phone phreaking: "Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell". Plus tons of original researc…

Thank you!

Great story! :-)

Phone freak (with an f) was the original term, in the late 1960s. When Ron Rosenbaum wrote "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" he made it into "phone phreak". "Phreaker" came a bit la…

His "How Evan Doorbell Became a Phone Phreak" series is fantastic: http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/#phonephreak