The Phone Phreaks were men and women of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s who obsessively explored - even infested - the telephone system to understand how it worked. He moved to the Bay Area after high school, hoping to be near his tech idols, the “Phone Phreaks” he’d read about on the internet. ![]() Over drinks, he told me that he had grown up poor in rural Michigan and that hacking in the early days of the internet had saved him. After a back-and-forth about the game Crystal Quest, he suggested we hang out. Naturally, I messaged him about the computer. ![]() He had an honest face slung on two good cheekbones, and he posed with acceptable-enough props (guitar, martini, ’90s-era Macintosh). ![]() After a couple hours of swiping on Bumble not so very long ago, I had exactly one decent match, a programmer in San Francisco.
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