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    • Jumper775@lemmy.world
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      Your what? Like those things with the dial that are attached to the wall? How are you meant to do it with that?

      • bstix@feddit.dk
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        Easy. You whistle in binary and say modem noises. The operator will patch you through to the internet.

          • Sai Somsphet@lemmy.zip
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            I genuinely can’t tell if you and the person you responded to are doing a bit and committing to it, or are genuinely referring to:

            Phreakers

            Making weird modem noises to hack phones will always be the funniest 90’s hacker thing I’ve ever heard.

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                  I know a lot of people get weird about it, but the Anarchist’s Cookbook had TONS of info on phreaking and exploiting telephone systems. It wasn’t just about how to make napalm and tennis ball bombs (but that shit was hella fun, too).

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      I’m sure this version of windows was before phones had screens attached, and likely before the internet was ubiquitous. They likely had one computer and would have had to go somewhere else to look it up if that was even an option.