Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

by Phil Lapsley

Book Overview

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 world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080212061X
• ISBN13: 9780802120618
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"