Simon Cox and Rupert Goodwins explore the world of hackspaces, fab labs and homebrew hi-tech.
Exploring the latest developments in from the world of information technology, and how these affect our lives. Click On brings you stories of digital developments, internet innovations, and technological triumphs and trials. Mondays at 4.30pm on Radio 4. Find out more at http://bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/clickon.
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Exploring the latest developments in from the world of information technology, and how these affect our lives. Click On brings you stories of digital developments, internet innovations, and technological triumphs and trials. Mondays at 4.30pm on Radio 4. Find out more at bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/clickon.
Simon Cox and Rupert Goodwins explore the world of hackspaces, fab labs and homebrew hi-tech.
Hacking didn’t start with the computer age. Back in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s geeks got their kicks from tapping into the phone lines. They called it Phone Phreaking. It was sometimes activism and sometimes straightforward mischief. Either way, author Phil Lapsley believes they laid the foundations for our current attitude toward technology.
Guests:
Phil Lapsley, Author of Exploding The Phone, a book on ‘Phone Phreaking’.
Publications:
Title: Exploding The Phone
Author: Phil Lapsley
Publisher: Grove / Atlantic Press
Further Information:
Exploding The Phone website (http://explodingthephone.com/index.php)
PDF Article on Phone Phreaking in Australia (http://explodingthephone.com/docs/dbx0186.pdf)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-proto-hackers/4618110
In 2008 2600 is 24 years old, the computer bulletin board system is a 30 year relic, and a good number of attendees of HOPE were not born when some events of the "modern" era of computers and hacking began. Historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com presents a quick primer of a large part of the basics of hacking and phreaking history, touching on those sometimes obscure or hilarious subjects that may have escaped notice in a Web 2.0 world.