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Kevin Driscoll πŸ“³

πŸ“ž Exciting new (open access!) article from Jacob Bruggeman comparing "telephone enthusiasts" in the UK and phone #phreaking in the US. He argues compellingly that each contributed to a global movement of telco hackers.

Love this note about the availability of documentation: "To anyone paying close attention, the electronic keys to the telephone systems of both countries were ready for the taking."

πŸ”— Jacob A. Bruggeman, "Phreaking the U.K.", Interfaces, vol 6, 2025. cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

πŸ“ž Exciting new (open access!) article from Jacob Bruggeman comparing "telephone enthusiasts" in the UK and phone #phreaking in the US. He argues compellingly that each contributed to a global movement of telco hackers.

Love this note about the availability of documentation: "To anyone paying close attention, the electronic keys to the telephone systems of both countries were ready for the taking."

15 January at 20:12 | Open on aoir.social
Kevin Driscoll πŸ“³

The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990. Recovering the text, diagrams, and formatting was not impossible but it was hard. A great example of the use of #emulation for historical research and digital preservation.

blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-origi

Edit: I'm glad this resonated with so many of you. Just to clarifyβ€” the author of the linked blog post is John Graham-Cumming (someone get him on fedi!) πŸ’Ύ

Screenshot of the original WWW proposal open in Word for Macintosh 4.0 running on an Infinite Mac emulator
13 Feb 2024 at 16:56 | Open on aoir.social
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Thorsted

@kdriscoll I took the original proposal doc, downloaded with wget to retain datestamp, opened in MS Word 4.0 on a Mac emulator, printed to postscript using Laserwriter printer, then distilled to PDF/A. Made a MacBinary with Type/Creator added back to file. #digipres drive.google.com/drive/folders

14 Feb 2024 at 16:55 | Open on digipres.club
Dark Photon Studio

@kdriscoll And what a disappointment it has turned out to be.

14 Feb 2024 at 17:39 | Open on metalhead.club
Johann Uhrmann

@kdriscoll
Am I the only one who finds it extremely disturbing that it's hard to recover a document that is merely 34 years old?

14 Feb 2024 at 20:48 | Open on bildung.social
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