How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines

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  • @mattsears1325
    @mattsears13253 жыл бұрын

    This guy really gets his use out of a stock footage subscription

  • @auggith

    @auggith

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @InventorZahran

    @InventorZahran

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stock footage isn't only useful for video production, but also for... (I won't finish that thought.)

  • @equation1321

    @equation1321

    3 жыл бұрын

    InventorZahran ye

  • @pramadito

    @pramadito

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@InventorZahran for memes

  • @GreatDivideSven

    @GreatDivideSven

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also maximizes his sponsors. As someone who doesnt like coffee I might try this one

  • @juhonikula6408
    @juhonikula64083 жыл бұрын

    "And this nerd, who later dropped out of college to run a fruit stand or something like that" A very expensive fruit stand may I say

  • @slyseal2091

    @slyseal2091

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Wacky Venky 2 trillion? Didn't they only recently become "the first trillion dollar company"

  • @ambe6377

    @ambe6377

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@slyseal2091 Dunno how to tell you this, but that's 2 years ago... You're getting old...

  • @epiclava_real

    @epiclava_real

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@slyseal2091 I think your thinking about Google (Or I guess Alphabet Inc.) who announced they hit a trillion earlier this year (though they weren't first).

  • @blakem2902

    @blakem2902

    3 жыл бұрын

    Making $1000 fruits that don’t even taste that good

  • @slyseal2091

    @slyseal2091

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ambe6377 You're telling me that a company that existed for at least 15 years in it's current form took 13 years to get to 1 trillion, and 2 to get to two trillion? Is the USDollar tied to venezuelan play money now?

  • @JT-SE-OHIO
    @JT-SE-OHIO2 жыл бұрын

    Back in the 70's, I discovered out of boredom, that if you recorded the sounds the phone made when dialing a number you could then pick up the receiver (get the dial tone) and play the number into the receiver and it would connect you without charging you. If you didn't push the buttons the system didn't know what phone to charge avoiding the long distance charges.

  • @fuki98

    @fuki98

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey, nice.

  • @Bacon17855

    @Bacon17855

    Ай бұрын

    Interesting

  • @Thereisnosp00000n
    @Thereisnosp00000n3 жыл бұрын

    In the eighties I had this calculator with a built in phone book. It had a speaker that emitted tones so I could use it with our rotary phone without having to use the rotor. I just chose the number on the calculator and held it up to the phone. Beep boop boop beep beep and it made the call. The real fun thing was that I could use it on many pay phones without having to pay.

  • @Roeclean

    @Roeclean

    2 жыл бұрын

    Neat

  • @someoneelse7629

    @someoneelse7629

    Жыл бұрын

    I did exactly that too, but with an DTMF sender I built from a kit, I never payed for a phonecall during my dorm days. Later I got a dormroom where I could reach the phonelines to the office below trough my window, so I pushed needles trough the pair and attached my own phone with alligator clips and used it after hours when the office was closed.

  • @juliencatalon293
    @juliencatalon2933 жыл бұрын

    People would take these to the airports and disconnect all the pay phones at once. Imagine what it would have been like lol

  • @Savant_Ananya

    @Savant_Ananya

    3 жыл бұрын

    No wonder Adam Levine said "I'm at a payphones trying to call home"

  • @priyapepsi

    @priyapepsi

    3 жыл бұрын

    YOU'RE HERE TOO??

  • @OldHumbleDistillingCompany

    @OldHumbleDistillingCompany

    3 жыл бұрын

    Back when pay phones were still a thing, too!

  • @hilal_younus

    @hilal_younus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Savant_Ananya “All of my change I spent on you”

  • @olliegoria

    @olliegoria

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hilal_younus please, i dont want to relive the early 2010s

  • @flashstar1234
    @flashstar12343 жыл бұрын

    “This video is made possible by Trade Coffee” Everybody: Impossible

  • @parinuser

    @parinuser

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @CubicCreeper7914

    @CubicCreeper7914

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @australiangamer7956

    @australiangamer7956

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don’t get it

  • @ivanramos2599

    @ivanramos2599

    3 жыл бұрын

    THAT'S SO ACCURATE!

  • @flashstar1234

    @flashstar1234

    3 жыл бұрын

    Australian Gamer Basically HAI and other educational channels like Reallifelore, Real engineering and others have a track record of being sponsored by some companies like Skillshare, Brilliant, thegreatcoursesplus, one dollar shave club and others that I can’t remember. Edit: Oh yeah and curiositystream

  • @juliogonzo2718
    @juliogonzo27183 жыл бұрын

    As a delinquent teen in the 90s I discovered you could jump two separate phone lines, dial *69 to hear last number that called, then press 1 to dial these numbers. Then you would listen to: "NO you called me" "Umm, nooo, YOU CALLED ME!"

  • @sissa8216

    @sissa8216

    3 жыл бұрын

    ... 69?

  • @Cheezepuffs_

    @Cheezepuffs_

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sissa8216 noice

  • @polipix_

    @polipix_

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Cheezepuffs_ 69 isn’t funny

  • @bigchongoose2206

    @bigchongoose2206

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@polipix_ huh

  • @placer7412

    @placer7412

    2 жыл бұрын

    I got way too big of a kick outta this. Lmao. nice.

  • @Min-Taro
    @Min-Taro3 жыл бұрын

    "Do you play any instruments?" "Yea, the phone"

  • @sylvisterling8782

    @sylvisterling8782

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I knew a blind guy who had absolute perfect pitch. Not relative perfect, but the real deal! He would patch into a phreaker line by whistling the exact tone needed to open that line!

  • @marktroup2978
    @marktroup29783 жыл бұрын

    Re: the Rick Moranis “hasn’t worked since the 80s” joke... After his wife died of breast cancer in 1991, the actor, without any fanfare or self-aggrandizing announcements, left Hollywood behind to raise his kids. His comedy style didn’t get old and the roles didn’t dry up, he just decided being a father to his kids was more important. The Keymaster is a good dude.

  • @skywastaken7300

    @skywastaken7300

    3 жыл бұрын

    IDK What This Means But I Liked It Edit:I Just Came Back To See The Likes Lol

  • @jaysea5939

    @jaysea5939

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good man, good dad.

  • @JH-ee5xv

    @JH-ee5xv

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seriously a stand up man, I feel like he almost became a punch line with too many people that weren’t aware of his personal life

  • @TheGooglySmoog

    @TheGooglySmoog

    3 жыл бұрын

    He is a good dude. I don't think HAI's reference to his was disrespectful in anyway but I'm glad that you brought up what he's been doing since.

  • @theonlynontrollhere

    @theonlynontrollhere

    3 жыл бұрын

    He recently announced he’s returning to film!

  • @AidanJ___
    @AidanJ___3 жыл бұрын

    “Switch to AT&T for faster modem speeds and no hidden fees!” - Every AT&T commercial ever

  • @nadanada5698

    @nadanada5698

    3 жыл бұрын

    10,000 Subs With 0 Videos - with a profile picture like yours were you born stupid or did you have to work at it ? ?

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nadanada5698 what???? that's not even relating to the video or this comment, and now you're calling someone stupid just because of their pfp?? with that logic you're dumb because of your pfp, like that doesn't make sense

  • @maruftim

    @maruftim

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nadanada5698 you're dumber it seems

  • @channelofrandom7731

    @channelofrandom7731

    3 жыл бұрын

    faster means faster than aoe

  • @Kimmel13

    @Kimmel13

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know right!! My bill is so high and I never have any service!!!

  • @norcaldeemichaels
    @norcaldeemichaels3 жыл бұрын

    3:55 “This guy who dropped out of college to start a fruit stand” My company does contract work for Apple, but due to confidentiality & non-disclosure agreements, we can’t refer to said company by name in any of our company communications, either written or even verbal, so in our company, we all know it as “The Acme Fruit Company”.

  • @circuit10

    @circuit10

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you supposed to tell us this?

  • @norcaldeemichaels

    @norcaldeemichaels

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@circuit10 Dee Michals isn’t my real name, nor is it the name I signed on the N.D.A. I never said my company’s name or what we did, & because of Covid, I don’t even work in the industry that had me working there anymore . I was never really exposed to any good juicy trade secrets at Apple, so if the Chinese (or anyone else) kidnapped me & injected me with truth serum, they wouldn’t get much.

  • @PokeShadow77

    @PokeShadow77

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@norcaldeemichaels fascinating

  • @dannypipewrench533

    @dannypipewrench533

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like this.

  • @JSTheAnonymousOne

    @JSTheAnonymousOne

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's hilarious, I like it

  • @FirstnameLastname-bp5cm
    @FirstnameLastname-bp5cm3 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact, your phone calls still go through “wires”. Even cellular connections need wires for most of the distance.

  • @a1locc25

    @a1locc25

    3 жыл бұрын

    On cellular devices it depends on what they run on. CDMA definitely but GSM no it's fully wireless.

  • @trueilarim

    @trueilarim

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@a1locc25 What? How is GSM going over the oceans wireless? Through satellites?

  • @timhowitz9405

    @timhowitz9405

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@trueilarim GSM is a wireless standard and is what the cellular networks are based on. For example, 2g is the second generation of a wireless protocol based on GSM. Your phone calls are transmitted to a cellular tower using protocols based on GSM (such as 4g) and then most likely sent along cables, but the cables aren't using GSM as that's a solely wireless standard.

  • @trueilarim

    @trueilarim

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@timhowitz9405 I know. You really need to reread the tone of my comment. And this whole thread.

  • @davidperry4013

    @davidperry4013

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fiber optic cables to be exact to connect the 5G mini towers.

  • @ARMRandomVideos
    @ARMRandomVideos3 жыл бұрын

    Man.. This was back in the day where you could get toys in cereal. Edit: I appreciate one hundred people separately saying that companies sometimes do that. If I didn't learn that from the first twenty, I won't learn it from the next eighty. Edit 2: Wow. Even more replies. Please stop

  • @wooof.

    @wooof.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol now it's a choking hazard and they can get sued

  • @JohnTheFloridaFlipper

    @JohnTheFloridaFlipper

    3 жыл бұрын

    They don’t do that anymore?

  • @minedoimperija

    @minedoimperija

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah

  • @sk61181

    @sk61181

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now all you get is loads of sugar and flavouring.

  • @mina86

    @mina86

    3 жыл бұрын

    /me laughs eating a Kinder Surprise.

  • @stacydowns
    @stacydowns3 жыл бұрын

    Back when cereal had toys and not a chance to win a signed overwatch esports league player card

  • @re57k

    @re57k

    3 жыл бұрын

    And that's even a chance to win!

  • @thetimelapseguy8

    @thetimelapseguy8

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank god those plastic throwaways wouldn't help the environment

  • @hoolia4987

    @hoolia4987

    3 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @factnfiction2547

    @factnfiction2547

    3 жыл бұрын

    You used to get whole records on the back of cereal boxes.

  • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228

    @axelpatrickb.pingol3228

    3 жыл бұрын

    Back in the days, you can win an entire Lionel toy train set complete with layout...

  • @ctoth93
    @ctoth933 жыл бұрын

    When he said "in the late 1960s, a group of hackers...", My Google Home activated and started telling me about the Green Bay Packers. I rewound and it did it again.

  • @ThrottleKitty

    @ThrottleKitty

    3 жыл бұрын

    "group of hackers" Google Google packers? "group of hackers" Google: GOOGLE PACKERS!!

  • @Brett_S_420

    @Brett_S_420

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is how you know it is spying on everything you say.

  • @creator2909

    @creator2909

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Brett_S_420 probably poorly lol

  • @ZaHandle

    @ZaHandle

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Brett_S_420 can’t spy someone who don’t speak english

  • @timh9749

    @timh9749

    3 жыл бұрын

    mine sometimes activates while the teacher is talking during class

  • @Pyronaut_
    @Pyronaut_3 жыл бұрын

    “Personally, I drink cold brew that’s so sweet that it tastes like melted coffee ice cream” Hey that’s what I drink, sometimes with literal ice cream scoops in it.

  • @Sydney-Casket-Base

    @Sydney-Casket-Base

    3 жыл бұрын

    i never met her, apparently my dad's mom also did that!

  • @Sydney-Casket-Base

    @Sydney-Casket-Base

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Caferacer Wolf different strokes for different folks

  • @rubbers3
    @rubbers33 жыл бұрын

    1:29 "If you're one of the 15 viewers of this channel who've ever touched a push button telephone" Then what is the amount of people that ever had a *rotary dial telephone?* _Just me?_ Oh.

  • @pogandswagchamp69

    @pogandswagchamp69

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've used a touch button phone and still have one in our house but I've never used a rotary dial phone

  • @imigsledesma

    @imigsledesma

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi I'm 22 we had rotary dial phones before switching to push button ones Also I miss the weight of payphones

  • @gunslingingbird74

    @gunslingingbird74

    3 жыл бұрын

    We had 2 rotary dial phones in my house when I was a kid: one in the kitchen, and one in my parents' room.

  • @groton27

    @groton27

    3 жыл бұрын

    that's what I was thinking. I'm like um I'm 41 my grandparents had a rotary dial phone when I was a kid.

  • @varana

    @varana

    3 жыл бұрын

    I still have my old rotary dial phone in my personal "obsolete technology" corner, together with a typewriter, a few cassettes, and stuff like that. :D

  • @TheAres1999
    @TheAres19993 жыл бұрын

    The Captain conceals the Jade Key, In a dwelling long neglected, But you can only blow the whistle Once the trophies are all collected

  • @changunjeong7758

    @changunjeong7758

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yesss

  • @nicholasdavoli2973

    @nicholasdavoli2973

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ahh yes the quatrain.

  • @mythitorium

    @mythitorium

    3 жыл бұрын

    Y E S

  • @terabyteultra1673

    @terabyteultra1673

    3 жыл бұрын

    I knew it was from somewhere

  • @zuka6867

    @zuka6867

    3 жыл бұрын

    ah yes

  • @w1jim
    @w1jim3 жыл бұрын

    More accurately, a "Phone Phreak" would dial an 800 (WATTS) line - which was free and then enter the 2600hz tone which would drop the call. At this point the call was beyond the billing stage. Then the "PP" enters DTMF (multi frequency) tones to redirect the call. While the touchtone phones of that era also emitted DTMF tones they wouldn't work at this stage. The so called "Blue Box" generated a different series of DTMF tones - the same ones an operator or the internal systems would generate. Or so I've heard...

  • @veanell

    @veanell

    3 жыл бұрын

    The movie hackers explains this better than this video does...

  • @user2C47

    @user2C47

    2 жыл бұрын

    The tones produced by the blue box (and also the DDD equipment) were called MF and indeed used a different set of frequencies. They were also based on the phone network's internal counting system, rather than a simple XY system.

  • @Condorito380

    @Condorito380

    2 жыл бұрын

    This man phreaks.

  • @ogpretty

    @ogpretty

    2 жыл бұрын

    I used to do it with the hangup switch. Depress it just over the on/off line really really quick. Without the bosun whistle it wasn't too useful tho.

  • @akkorosie
    @akkorosie3 жыл бұрын

    “It was invented by this nerd and then later sold by this nerd”

  • @tacokoneko
    @tacokoneko3 жыл бұрын

    in an intro programming class in university i once wrote a program that can record with microphone the beep sounds a touch tone telephone makes and then display the phone number on the screen. The program worked by performing a fast fourier transform algorithm on the digital signal, which gives the individual frequencies the beeps were composed of. Each different number's beep is called a DTMF tone, and each is defined as specific pair of frequencies. A strong enough amplitude in the right areas of the frequency domain, and the program can guess a number digit. Repeat for all the digits in the phone number, then the full number can be displayed. It even works if you press multiple buttons at once!

  • @rextransformation7418

    @rextransformation7418

    2 жыл бұрын

    😮🤳

  • @fizzy7140
    @fizzy71403 жыл бұрын

    HAI: wow this 2600 Hz sound is annoying Me, a violinist: *hold my 3 octave scales*

  • @LividImp

    @LividImp

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love dissonant violin.

  • @cardinalbob1

    @cardinalbob1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Q. What is the difference between a violin 🎻 and a viola? A. A viola burns longer. 🔥😂🤣

  • @blulere

    @blulere

    3 жыл бұрын

    🎻 *LING LING 4EVER* 🎻

  • @ahmed4363

    @ahmed4363

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cardinalbob1 I don't know what viola is but is saying vi o la correct? The english language is very weird

  • @crys9879

    @crys9879

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ahmed4363 that’s pretty much it, assuming your vi o la is like vee oh la, together it kinda sounds like vee-owe-la. It’s a string instrument a tad bit larger than the violin and it plays in its very own clef known as the alto clef, between treble and bass

  • @originalname9999
    @originalname99993 жыл бұрын

    This video really just touched the tip of the iceberg in the phone phreaking world(I know, that's what this channel is about). They where able to pull of some serious stunts that went well beyond making free long distance calls. It really is an interesting topic and there are a couple good long form vids and article out there about it.

  • @asynchronousongs

    @asynchronousongs

    Жыл бұрын

    very late, but what kind of things did they do then?

  • @PKDoesStuff

    @PKDoesStuff

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@asynchronousongs also late, but check out the movie Hackers if you're still interested. A bunch of it is goofy, but most of the actual hacking and phreaking were based on legit techniques and practices (the 3D mainframe GUI less so).

  • @freakymoejoe2
    @freakymoejoe23 жыл бұрын

    What I learned from this is that my tinnitus could hack phones

  • @odysseyguyperson
    @odysseyguyperson3 жыл бұрын

    3:53 ah yes, my favorite multi trillion dollar fruit stand, Apple

  • @tenzinc1514

    @tenzinc1514

    3 жыл бұрын

    its quite the lucrative market

  • @odysseyguyperson

    @odysseyguyperson

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tenzinc1514 froot

  • @cosmonautduckling6402
    @cosmonautduckling64023 жыл бұрын

    AT&T: NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!! box toy: brrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • @cosmonautduckling6402

    @cosmonautduckling6402

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tyujg7495. box toy: bonjour.

  • @terabyteultra1673

    @terabyteultra1673

    3 жыл бұрын

    seriously though, it went *_brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr_*

  • @CosmiaNebula

    @CosmiaNebula

    3 жыл бұрын

    no it's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @kayshawnsimmons6822

    @kayshawnsimmons6822

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed 🤔🤔

  • @FlyMIfYouGotM
    @FlyMIfYouGotM2 жыл бұрын

    A couple of the, "Phone Phreak" guys were give a choice by Ma bell and the FBI: work for Ma Bell to help them secure the system or they would be given a new address at the Grey Bar Inn. Had a high school friend who took the deal. Fun times!

  • @aryanbhaskar6502
    @aryanbhaskar65023 жыл бұрын

    Trade Coffee: Check out the link in the description. Me: Yeah, sure! Brilliant, Skillshare etc.: **Gasp collectively**

  • @Ewzycuh

    @Ewzycuh

    3 жыл бұрын

    XD

  • @ytcommenter8156
    @ytcommenter81563 жыл бұрын

    For the sponsorship, you pronounced "Skillshare" wrong

  • @lompochorsleys

    @lompochorsleys

    3 жыл бұрын

    pronunciation of “Topeka” was also a bit off

  • @geo3172

    @geo3172

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @plant5875

    @plant5875

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Austin Martín Hernández Or curiositystream, or NordVPN

  • @jalexanderdatkins

    @jalexanderdatkins

    3 жыл бұрын

    “A small local roaster, far away from you”

  • @geniferteal4178

    @geniferteal4178

    3 жыл бұрын

    Time please? Can't find it! Lol

  • @BrainsApplied
    @BrainsApplied3 жыл бұрын

    I have the feeling that, from now on, we're going to see a lot of Trade Coffee ads...

  • @pogandswagchamp69

    @pogandswagchamp69

    3 жыл бұрын

    Something wrong I can feel it

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    im taking a screenshot of this comment so if you're right i will know you predicted it

  • @moritzl7065

    @moritzl7065

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't know, it seems like the stereotypical startup business model: Product that delivers to your door which currently is mostly bought at retail, a "weekly/monthly subscription" (to coffee?! seriously?!) and personalization. Not sure about using Netflix's business model on coffee (or other retail products, looking at you dollar shave club) is gonna work...

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moritzl7065it doesn't matter if anything about this company is good or not, because we know that from... _Raid._ i think i've said enough.

  • @pogandswagchamp69

    @pogandswagchamp69

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moritzl7065 when I first saw your name I thought it was morgz

  • @CommodoreFloopjack78
    @CommodoreFloopjack783 жыл бұрын

    Hey, I remember rotary-dial phones AND I still enjoy Count Chocula on a regular basis, thank you very much.

  • @Hotcartofa
    @Hotcartofa3 жыл бұрын

    0:58 are we all going to ignore the fact that the person in this part of the video is calling 911

  • @wamsang7818
    @wamsang78183 жыл бұрын

    Kids in school when they figure out what frequency the school bell is: *pathetic*

  • @somebodylikesbacon1960

    @somebodylikesbacon1960

    3 жыл бұрын

    I just realized, I could use that to Rick Roll the entire school.

  • @TakeNoShift

    @TakeNoShift

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mine is 500hz EDIT: Square wave.

  • @wamsang7818

    @wamsang7818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TakeNoShift Mine is F# if I remember correctly (good thing I have someone with perfect pitch at my school)

  • @TakeNoShift

    @TakeNoShift

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wamsang7818 F#4? That would be just at 370hz (369.99). F#5 would be just at 740hz (739.99). This page gives hz to musical notes. pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

  • @wamsang7818

    @wamsang7818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TakeNoShift idk I have to ask my friend with perfect pitch

  • @brandon14
    @brandon143 жыл бұрын

    I’m one of the 15 viewers who has touched a push button phone. I’ve also used a rotary phone aswell. Those were the days

  • @sujimtangerines

    @sujimtangerines

    3 жыл бұрын

    I miss the catharsis of slamming down the handset in anger, and how the bell in my rotary phone would jingle after for a couple of seconds. Now it's just, "ARGH, YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF!!". **poke**

  • @veanell

    @veanell

    3 жыл бұрын

    I use one most days. I have an office job 🙃

  • @Chyllstorm
    @Chyllstorm3 жыл бұрын

    Phreaking was fun. I used to call California BBSes from Michigan, and never pay a dime. Those were the fun days back before the world wide web and internet. It was awesome having someone call into the Shadoe Boxx (my bbs- come on, I was a teen and obsessed with martial arts) at 2 in the morning to play the handcrafted Dungeons and Dragons campaign I set up on there, or one of the other games or activities I did on there. Only in the night though, had to keep my phone line clear during the day for phone calls!

  • @cohenfromdiscord2551
    @cohenfromdiscord25513 жыл бұрын

    Lol this is actually a pretty awesome chapter in the book Jobs. Both Steve’s stopped selling the hacking equipment after one customer pulled a gun on them and robbed them of it... but later said customer couldn’t find out how to use it so ended up calling them back to ask for help.

  • @TheWestDESIGN
    @TheWestDESIGN3 жыл бұрын

    If you're more interested in phone phreaking and technical details, I *highly* recommend *The 8-bit Guy's* presentation video!

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant30123 жыл бұрын

    That must've been a hell of a realization. First, the guy must have had perfect pitch or something; and so he blows the whistle and is like "hey, that's the EXACT frequency I need to hack AT&T!".

  • @aawagga7099
    @aawagga70993 жыл бұрын

    "if you are one of the 15 viewers who have ever touched a push button telephone" me a teenager who has a family who still receives calls on it and sometimes calls other people too:

  • @autonomouscollective2599
    @autonomouscollective25993 жыл бұрын

    Not only did I use a rotary phone, my family had a party line. When the phone rang, you had to wait a few seconds to make sure it was your own special ring. Ours was two shorts and one long.

  • @spiritmatter1553

    @spiritmatter1553

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that’s "advanced"! I used to wish we had one. I wanted to eavesdrop on people’s conversations when I was a kid.

  • @spaghet4life751
    @spaghet4life7513 жыл бұрын

    "...a design that was perfected by this nerd" Hey all, Steve here

  • @djangoarcher
    @djangoarcher3 жыл бұрын

    When You See An HAI Video With A Topic You Already Know About: "Hey. I've Seen This One!"

  • @notrandomtypek

    @notrandomtypek

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think Nostalgia Nerd talked about it?

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    stop putting a upper-case letter at the start of every word it's so annoying to me

  • @TheLegoPerson

    @TheLegoPerson

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same! Steve Wozniac's biography talks about this story in the section where he describes the machine he made with Jobs to hack the telephone network.

  • @matt_at_midnight

    @matt_at_midnight

    3 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean you’ve seen this one? It’s brand new.

  • @notrandomtypek

    @notrandomtypek

    3 жыл бұрын

    probably something Dude if you don’t know any sources of information other than HAI, I feel bad for you.

  • @mikenick9163
    @mikenick91633 жыл бұрын

    Anyone remember the early 2000’s movie “The Core”? The skinny computer hacker kid did something somewhat similar with a piece of foil to put “free long distance on a cell phone for life”. Guess they used this idea. 😂💯

  • @mikenick9163

    @mikenick9163

    3 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2abysWSdsK4XZM.html Forget the video link!

  • @editz5110
    @editz51103 жыл бұрын

    You forgot to add the part where you had to block one of the holes in order to produce the 2600 hertz sound

  • @sylvisterling8782

    @sylvisterling8782

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the whistle had two notes it played. The higher of the two was the tone used. I never had a whistle, but I remember watching M.G. use it!

  • @rohanmahantesh2382
    @rohanmahantesh23823 жыл бұрын

    Earlier : CuriosityStream, Skill Share, Square Space, Dashlane..... Now : Trade Coffee WAIT, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

  • @askiiart
    @askiiart3 жыл бұрын

    See: Phone phreaking by the 8-bit guy

  • @MARKE911
    @MARKE9113 жыл бұрын

    I have a working 1929 Bell South Rotary Dial phone still on my wall. I wouldn’t have a landline if it wasn’t for the fact I have free landline service for life. What really surprises me is my analog rotary dial still works to make and receive calls. I honestly don’t use my home phone for any reason other than to show off my phone and the more frequent spam caller.

  • @kellykx8120
    @kellykx81203 жыл бұрын

    omg i'd forgotten about the amazing toys that came with cereal! color/temperature changing spoons used to rock! hahah

  • @bibasik7
    @bibasik73 жыл бұрын

    I'm one of the 15 people watching this video who has a landline.

  • @IAmMrFrazier

    @IAmMrFrazier

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hello from the future!!!

  • @12kenbutsuri

    @12kenbutsuri

    3 жыл бұрын

    Every house still has one in Asia

  • @cat3crazy

    @cat3crazy

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have a land line since reception in my home isn't very good.

  • @sheejasam6567

    @sheejasam6567

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@12kenbutsuri lmao I have one in India

  • @vccubing7345

    @vccubing7345

    3 жыл бұрын

    Woa these are cool likes lmao

  • @jacksonskyline
    @jacksonskyline3 жыл бұрын

    Before I watched the video, I was like. “Is this about the Phone Phreaker Nicknamed “Cap’n Crunch”

  • @craigcarter400
    @craigcarter4003 жыл бұрын

    1:29 Not only do I remember using the push button phone but I also remember there were clicks produced not tones. The 0 produced 10 audible clicks.

  • @jevinday
    @jevinday3 жыл бұрын

    Ahh the lightsaber spoons! Those were the best cereal toys ever! We had a couple of them and my siblings and I legit used them for years as a kid haha. I totally forgot about those.

  • @KronosMXVII
    @KronosMXVII3 жыл бұрын

    Can we take a moment to discuss how he said "Set fire to the neighbor's cat."

  • @LividImp

    @LividImp

    3 жыл бұрын

    On the bright side, the cat stayed warm for the rest of its life.

  • @Vielenberg

    @Vielenberg

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, nobody cares about that. Everybody is talking about that Trade Coffee thing.

  • @jozenne0018

    @jozenne0018

    3 жыл бұрын

    That cat was weird. In fact, that was not a cat at all.

  • @thewikipediabrown007

    @thewikipediabrown007

    2 жыл бұрын

    seriously...a really unfunny weird joke.

  • @para_magnus2200
    @para_magnus22003 жыл бұрын

    It’s a good day when half as interesting uploads

  • @farida.

    @farida.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bruh

  • @alrightstudios7091

    @alrightstudios7091

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah no kidding

  • @conclusivestate

    @conclusivestate

    3 жыл бұрын

    ah yes, my almost daily dose of stock footage filled, half-clickbaity interesting facts from 4 to 8 minutes with a Brilliant, Skillshare or Squarespace sponsorship at the end

  • @kayshawnsimmons6822

    @kayshawnsimmons6822

    3 жыл бұрын

    Our new life in quarantine Rona 2020🤦‍♀️🤷‍♂️

  • @ninaadbhat
    @ninaadbhat3 жыл бұрын

    The transition between the telephone hacking and the coffee was real smooth

  • @mothiurNCL
    @mothiurNCL3 жыл бұрын

    I like the way the narrator subtly added the coffee section by starting to talk about the sponsor at the end instead of ending the video to separately discuss the sponsor's products.

  • @cedricye1767
    @cedricye17673 жыл бұрын

    “This video is made possible by Trade Coffee” Brilliant, Curiosity Stream, Skillshare, Squarespace, -Raid: Shadow Legends- and Honey: "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @leap123_

    @leap123_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget -Raid: Shadow Legends- , Squarespace and Honey too

  • @cedricye1767

    @cedricye1767

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leap123_ Thanks!

  • @theevildrummingsithlord1492

    @theevildrummingsithlord1492

    3 жыл бұрын

    What about manscape?

  • @Bacony_Cakes

    @Bacony_Cakes

    3 жыл бұрын

    where the great courses plus and dollar shave club at

  • @theevildrummingsithlord1492

    @theevildrummingsithlord1492

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Bacony_Cakes Yo great courses plus is awesome

  • @ya7ioo
    @ya7ioo3 жыл бұрын

    What's this? 2 uploads in 2 days? We have been blessed.

  • @Jcs_-ho4rv
    @Jcs_-ho4rv3 жыл бұрын

    Two videos in one week? Am I in heaven?

  • @TheHiredGun187
    @TheHiredGun1872 жыл бұрын

    I remember when "phone phreaking" was huge. I coulda went to jail for it once..but I was only 14 at the time so it was just a coupla weeks in juvie.

  • @ceasersean5537
    @ceasersean55373 жыл бұрын

    I actually learned about this in the book "Ready Player One". Man, it taught you 80's and 90's trivia that most people didn't know.

  • @jackwixson6421

    @jackwixson6421

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ceaser Sean I was looking for this comment

  • @Brick-Life

    @Brick-Life

    3 жыл бұрын

    i watched the movie

  • @nicholasdavoli2973

    @nicholasdavoli2973

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Brick-Life the movie sucks. You should read the book and youll see why. Or listen to it on audible it's narrated by Wil Wheaton.

  • @nicholasdavoli2973

    @nicholasdavoli2973

    3 жыл бұрын

    "The captain conceals the Jade key in a dwelling long neglected. But you can only blow the whistle once the trophies are all collected."

  • @bodie6783

    @bodie6783

    3 жыл бұрын

    Brick Life the movie is ok but the book is amazing

  • @TheSheiban
    @TheSheiban3 жыл бұрын

    I'm so honored to be considered one of the only 15 viewers who used a touch-tone phone...

  • @pogandswagchamp69

    @pogandswagchamp69

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @gunslingingbird74

    @gunslingingbird74

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha! When I was a kid, we had rotary dial phones!

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gunslingingbird74 someone is 100% going to say "ok boomer" for sure and it might've already happened and my page just hasn't loaded it yet

  • @gullox1804

    @gullox1804

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TAOEXPRESS nah, he never say that rotary dial phone were better so he is safe

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gullox1804 but that still doesn't mean he's safe from a person saying "ok boomer"

  • @derpydipper
    @derpydipper Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this. This actually help me for my college subject

  • @slimes99
    @slimes993 жыл бұрын

    0:21 I LOVED that cereal as a kid. I predict I will still love it.

  • @zazo5525

    @zazo5525

    2 жыл бұрын

    You still are a kid

  • @FingeringThings
    @FingeringThings3 жыл бұрын

    AT&T charges me a 100 per month and they can't even protect their line from a cereal box toy

  • @jeffreyroy1052
    @jeffreyroy10523 жыл бұрын

    Last time I was this early, this was on wendover as TWL

  • @metropod
    @metropod3 жыл бұрын

    I actually found an 1980s “speed dialer” device in my house. At first glance, it looks like a good old fashioned pocket calculator... but it had a speaker on the back. Entering a number on the pad, played the associated tone. You would store the numbers you wanted in the device’s memory. When you wanted to use it, you held the device over the handset microphone and punched in which memory slot you wanted the device to play back. It fired off, the switching station process the beeps, and your call was connected.

  • @edmund-osborne

    @edmund-osborne

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's really clever and very useful because it'd work universally. There's no reason it would ever not work with a phone.

  • @aryanbhaskar6502
    @aryanbhaskar65023 жыл бұрын

    The best part of this video is the new sponsor. Believe it or not, I ACTUALLY saw the ad. In its ENTIRETY.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell23263 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you covered Towlie's discovery of Funky Town on the touch tone phone. It was the first thing I thought about.

  • @AnimilesYT
    @AnimilesYT3 жыл бұрын

    I would honestly be surprised if I went to a local coffeeshop and they actually gave me coffee. The Netherlands really is an interesting place

  • @sirBrouwer

    @sirBrouwer

    3 жыл бұрын

    well a lot of them do sell coffee, tea, soda's for direct use. like a pub does only no beer. Alcohol and weed together can go very bad.

  • @AnimilesYT

    @AnimilesYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jbird4478 I'm not sure if you know it or not, but in case you don't: Here in the Netherlands a coffeeshop is a place where you buy weed. Coffeeshops are legal establishments.

  • @GalazyProductions
    @GalazyProductions3 жыл бұрын

    Right after you talked about the coffee sponsor a coffee ad played for me. Lol.

  • @casanova419
    @casanova4192 жыл бұрын

    Growing up in the 80's in NYC- AT&T public pay phones you would dial 660 then 113 I think wait for the tone then you could make free calls even long distance. I think the dial codes was for the repair person to use to test the repairs on that phone.

  • @jonasdatlas4668
    @jonasdatlas46683 жыл бұрын

    I bet most of the watchers of this channel are too young to remember this and will be absolutely stunned.

  • @CCGBacon17

    @CCGBacon17

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm stunned cereal came with toys

  • @mayhair

    @mayhair

    3 жыл бұрын

    Of course. This happened in the mid-1960s and this channel's target audience is millenials and Generation Z.

  • @jonasdatlas4668

    @jonasdatlas4668

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mayhair I'm pretty sure this worked well into the 80s at least in some places.

  • @jacobsajan9202
    @jacobsajan92023 жыл бұрын

    I've got a feeling this is going to be one of his most popular videos.

  • @xXRedTheDragonXx
    @xXRedTheDragonXx Жыл бұрын

    Something similar still worked on payphones up until the mid 2000s. Someone that I knew had a box that made the tones for different coins being inserted. It was just a Radio Shack project box with 3 different buttons and a speaker on it. We used the box on a bunch of different phones around our small town, and we only found a handful where it didn't work. The legend was always that if someone deposited more than $50 at once, the phone would automatically call the police because payphones can't physically hold more than $50. We tested this claim, and nothing happened but then when you picked up the phone it played a message saying that the phone was out of service and could only make 911 calls.

  • @teshua
    @teshua3 жыл бұрын

    I remember buying Chex cereal that had a disk inside containing a video game called "Chex-Quest- that was just a Doom knock-off (uses the same game engine) that my millennial age sons would play for hours on the computer. 90's was 'good times' indeed.

  • @Rarecommentry
    @Rarecommentry3 жыл бұрын

    In a few years from now we will have a video titled “how HAI sponsorship killed a coffee bean startup”

  • @peppermint_8
    @peppermint_83 жыл бұрын

    I have a landline in my house and use it regularly. Seriously, they are so easy to hear through!

  • @jmccoomber1659

    @jmccoomber1659

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do hey still have a designated calling area with everything farther away "long distance" with additional fees?

  • @Archamfer
    @Archamfer3 жыл бұрын

    "small local roaster, far away from you" a fantastic oxymoron, very well done

  • @chickenfarmer321
    @chickenfarmer3213 жыл бұрын

    The clinical sarcasm is great.

  • @bingecast_
    @bingecast_3 жыл бұрын

    *Random Fun Fact:* The yo-yo is believed to be the world’s second oldest toy, after dolls. -SavageInfoVan

  • @notlucas6859

    @notlucas6859

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @gunslingingbird74

    @gunslingingbird74

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was also originally invented as a weapon.

  • @sirBrouwer

    @sirBrouwer

    3 жыл бұрын

    the oldest toy is most likely a stick, bone fragment or anything a child good bring in to it for play. Dolls where indeed one of the first items made purposely for there use. Often with different craft's man (and his family) working on the different parts of the body (in there spare/down time). toy's made by a craftsmen (later on factories) that would only make toys is very new.

  • @ce3jay196
    @ce3jay1963 жыл бұрын

    2:32 me watching on a galaxy note 9! how does he know?

  • @TAOEXPRESS

    @TAOEXPRESS

    3 жыл бұрын

    have you recovered from the 28 stab wounds

  • @ce3jay196

    @ce3jay196

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TAOEXPRESS just about still feel pain occasionally

  • @Enterstyx
    @Enterstyx3 жыл бұрын

    I finally understand the comrade crunch joke in Jazzpunk.

  • @stephenflannery9810
    @stephenflannery98103 жыл бұрын

    This was one of the funniest videos I've seen in a while.

  • @republicofglarnesia186
    @republicofglarnesia1863 жыл бұрын

    “Phone Phreaks” As a perfectionist, the “Ph” makes me wanna die

  • @TheGreatPurpleFerret

    @TheGreatPurpleFerret

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats what it was called though, phreaking. "The term phreak is a sensational spelling of the word freak with the ph- from phone, and may also refer to the use of various audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system. "

  • @JouvaMoufette

    @JouvaMoufette

    3 жыл бұрын

    You have to understand that the community that formed and became interested in this behavior was also one that enjoyed the concept of sensational spelling, just like how the term "l33t hax0r" came to be. That and I mean come on, alliteration... To a degree

  • @CEKROM
    @CEKROM3 жыл бұрын

    3:23 That's a funny coincidence =D

  • @Lucmin
    @Lucmin3 жыл бұрын

    I remember getting Roller Coaster Tycoon out of a cereal box

  • @m7rkus820
    @m7rkus8202 жыл бұрын

    1:30 everyone’s used a push-button telephone at least once calling from the school office trying to convince your mom that you’re sick.

  • @TravelFilming
    @TravelFilming3 жыл бұрын

    "For the 15 viewers who heard tones when pressing the numbers on a phone." There was a time when you heard pulses when dialing numbers and instead of pushing buttons you had to use a round disk with holes in them. Simpler but good times back then.

  • @spiritmatter1553

    @spiritmatter1553

    2 жыл бұрын

    Us chicks with long fingernails used to use the eraser end of a pencil to dial them, to save our nails. Oh, the humanity.

  • @isaacvanvoorhis7108
    @isaacvanvoorhis71083 жыл бұрын

    This is what they talked about in Ready Player One.

  • @davegrox3150
    @davegrox31503 жыл бұрын

    one of fifteen why i feel old, special, attacked, and honored at same time-

  • @Totally_Bonkers
    @Totally_Bonkers2 жыл бұрын

    I was half asleep when i watched this, so time to rewatch it

  • @translunarinjectionstudios6104
    @translunarinjectionstudios61043 жыл бұрын

    Me, who read Ready Player One: *laughs in big brain*

  • @tgamescz9133

    @tgamescz9133

    3 жыл бұрын

    hello fellow big brainer

  • @MidwestSirenProductions

    @MidwestSirenProductions

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembered that!! The captain conceals the Jade Key In a dwelling long neglected But only you can blow the whistle Once the trophies are collected.

  • @KenhelExcallius
    @KenhelExcallius3 жыл бұрын

    This viedo is sponsored by trade coffee? is that even for real? and also do trade tea next yes

  • @Bacony_Cakes

    @Bacony_Cakes

    3 жыл бұрын

    **the british empire has joined the chat**

  • @KenhelExcallius

    @KenhelExcallius

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bacony Cakes Yes Great Britain *Looks at my very British PFP*

  • @Bacony_Cakes

    @Bacony_Cakes

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KenhelExcallius indeed

  • @chrislooney8682
    @chrislooney86823 жыл бұрын

    Came across a video and still on your page 3 hours later. Short and sweet 🤙

  • @Infomaniac_Moment
    @Infomaniac_Moment3 жыл бұрын

    Now I get the Jazzpunk reference when you use a whistle to respond to a phone in a simulation!

  • @MadsterV
    @MadsterV3 жыл бұрын

    "one of the 15 viewers of this channel who have ever touched.... a push button telephone" I expected you to say rotary. damnit.

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe64622 жыл бұрын

    "One of the 15 viewers who've ever touched a pushbutton phone." Not only has every landline our family has ever had been pushbutton, our current one is corded and probably older than I am. The church our family went to had rotating dial. Apparently they could afford a multimillion dollar building but not a telephone made within the past 4 decades.

  • @masonsykes2240

    @masonsykes2240

    2 жыл бұрын

    My house is equipped with pushbutton phones, except for the kitchen phone, which is a built-in rotary phone from the 30s. (My house is ooooold.)

  • @grayrabbit2211
    @grayrabbit22112 жыл бұрын

    Phone Phreaking was a blast back in the day. I'd spend hours on conference bridges talking with people all around the world. Even got to speak with Mr. Draper one night. Good times.

  • @notoriouswhitemoth
    @notoriouswhitemoth2 жыл бұрын

    Tangentially related trivia - the sound effect Star Trek uses when the captain makes a shipwide announcement is a bo'sun's pipe