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Blue Box, Designed and Built by Steve Wozniak and Marketed by Steve Jobs, circa 1972
Steve Jobs1971/1973
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Blue boxes allowed people to make free, illegal, long-distance phone calls. They mimicked the same 2600hz "switching" tone used by telephone operators to connect people, tricking automated systems. In the 1960s, notorious "phone phreakers" infiltrated the telephone network; their actions were comparable to modern-day hackers. Built by Steve Wozniak, this box predates Apple Computer Inc. by four years.
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- Title: Blue Box, Designed and Built by Steve Wozniak and Marketed by Steve Jobs, circa 1972
- Creator: Wozniak, Steve, 1950-, Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011
- Date Created: 1971/1973
- Location: United States, California, Berkeley, United States, California, Arcata
- Subject Keywords: Claxton, William, Claxton, David, Communication, Hacking, Telephones, Blue box, Electronic devices, Electronics
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Electronic device
- Object ID: 2017.151.1
- Image ID: THF170547
- Field: Telecommunications
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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