Today I Found Out

Steve Jobs' Illegal First Business (2015x113)

: 25, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Inventing the TV Dinner http://bit.ly/1hY3C31 The Celestial Message in a Bottle http://bit.ly/1Ny5350 In this video: These boxes were designed in 1972 by Jobs’ close friend and future co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. The idea to sell them was supposedly Jobs’. The two learned about blue boxes from famed “phreaker” (phone freak/hacker) John “Cap’n Crunch” Draper. (This nickname was alluding to a whistle given away in the 1960s in Cap’n Crunch cereal which produced the perfect tone, 2600 Hz, to allow a person to enter operator mode on AT&T’s phone system. Draper later briefly worked at Apple, even while serving a five year jail sentence for his phreaking escapades.) Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/10/steve-jobs-first-business-was-selling-blue-boxes-that-allowed-users-to-get-free-phone-service-illegally/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/attractionslandmark1/a/stevewozniak.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HFURM8O-oYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI&feature=relmfu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/bio.php http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805 http://news.discovery.com/tech/steve-jobs-surprising-facts-111007.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson_%28novelist%29 http://archive.is/20120905/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html Image Credit: