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Comment by robterrell | Hacker News Reader

Here's a fun fact: in the photo of the Byte Shop, the person in the window with their back to the camera is John Draper, the legendary hacker known as Captain Crunch.

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I've been fascinated with the phreaks ever since I downloaded my first copy of the anarchists guide off my local BBS.

You might like Evan Doorbell's YT channel then – he has a lot of old tapes from his misspent youth traveling the world on Ma Bell's dime, and has posted a lot of videos explaining it all for a generation (like mine) without any frame of reference.

https://www.youtube.com/@evandoorbell4278

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 phreaking. https://explodingthephone.com/

Evan narrated the Audible version. :-)

I enjoyed your book, made sense of a lot of things 13 year old me had stumbled upon that I could never get to work (as I was maybe 5 years too late).

That's awesome, thank you!

I very much recommend this book as well. Great read. Thanks for writing it!

Exploding The Phone was an excellent read.

Wild. How do we know that? (Is that his VW outside?)

My uncle is Paul Terrell, the owner of that Byte Shop. He showed me the photo and told me who was in the window. But I don't have an independent verification of this -- dunno, maybe Captain Crunch is a lurker here?

Very cool.

Almost like the Putnam question on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

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