Before computer hacking, the analogue, mechanical telephone system was the play-thing of “phone phreaks” like Steve Wozniak. But few are aware of the unbelievable life of this subversive past-time’s founder—Joybubbles—who started it all in the 50s before he turned eight. Documentary Film Director Rachael Morrison joins the New Explorations Podcast to retrieve one of the most important, real mythic origin stories of our porous, programmable electronic environment.

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Read the Ron Rosenbaum’s 1971 Esquire Magazine article ‘Secrets of the Little Blue Box’ which launched Joybubbles into global infamy!