Independent research index / First release
Phone phreaking: learning the network
Telephone experimentation is a central thread here, with earlier engineering and later computing connections kept in view.
Source review: 16 October 2026 · Original editorial overview
Networks as objects of study
The historical record includes public Bell technical literature, contemporary journalism, and surviving devices. These are different kinds of evidence. A technical journal documents a published system description; a magazine report records interviews and the reporter’s framing; a museum object documents an artifact and its provenance. None should be silently substituted for another.
Sources: History of Phone Phreaking documents · 1971 reporting.
A bridge into personal computing
A surviving Wozniak blue box and the Homebrew/Apple-1 record provide concrete connections between telephone experimentation and personal-computing hardware. They support specific artifact and participant histories, not a claim that all personal computing descended from phreaking. This archive does not reproduce toll-fraud instructions or historical personal phone directories.
Sources: Museum artifact record · Homebrew and Apple-1.
Plaintext version · Editorial standards
Follow the catalog
Title-keyword matches; this is an editorial browsing connection, not proof of historical influence.
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1993
Cellular Phone Biopsy
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 10, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1993
Hacking Smartphone
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 10, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1992
Hitchhiker Guide to the Phone System Phreaking in the Nineties
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 9, number 2
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1992
How to Take Apart A Payphone
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 9, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1992
The Australian Phone System
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 9, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1992
Using the Telephone
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 9, number 3
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1991
411--News About Phone Companies~
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 8, number 2
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1991
FM Telephone Transmitter
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 8, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1991
Phone Numbers Supplied by Readers
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 8, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1991
U.S. Phone Companies Face Built-In Privacy Hole
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 8, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1990
Building a Telephone Induction Coil
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 7, number 3
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1989
British Telecom: Guilty
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 6, number 3
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1989
How Payphones Really Work
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 6, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1989
Punching Pay Phones
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 6, number 3
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1989
Spanish Phones--and what they don't do
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 6, number 2
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1989
The Day the Phone System REALLY Died
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 6, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
Book Review: Tune in on Telephone Calls by Tom Kneitel
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
Canadian WATS Phonebook
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 3
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
Fun Phone Numbers
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 2
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
How to Hear Phone Calls
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
MCI: The Phone Company With A Lot of Explaining To Do
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
Monitoring Phone Calls With A TVRO
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
ROLM Phone System Creates a Nightmare
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
What's Going On With Phones/Computers
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 3