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Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell Hardcover - 2013
by Phil Lapsley
Before smart phones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system.
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- Title Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- Author Phil Lapsley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press, New York
- Date 2013-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780802120618 / 080212061X
- Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.6 in (22.61 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Dixon
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress subjects Telephone systems - Security measures, Counterculture - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 384.065
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/2012, Page 8
- Choice, 08/01/2013, Page 0
- Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2013, Page 24
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2013, Page 52
- Library Journal, 04/01/2013, Page 91
- Publishers Weekly, 10/22/2012, Page 0
- SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens, 12/01/2013, Page 44
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Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition.Signed by the author, Phil Lapsley.Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T's monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it…
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