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		dylan604 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience The use of the soda can pull tab to ground the receiver to get a dial tone was my moment as I was a noob phreaker well before being a hacker. How many kids watching that movie would even know what was happening today? Would they even know what he picks up off the ground let alone the actual phreaking

cheschire 15 days ago | [–]

Let alone the receiver. Or the concept of the pay phone as a whole.

harel 15 days ago | [–]

And that actual "dial" on the phone...

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