Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers 2013

Author(s): Phil Lapsley, Steve Wozniak
Publisher:
Date: 2013
Format: EPUB
Language: English
ISBN10: 080212061X

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the worldΓÇÖs largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham BellΓÇÖs revolutionary ΓÇ£harmonic telegraph,ΓÇ¥ by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.