The Two Steves
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
In 1971, Esquire Magazine ran an article about phone phreaking. This was the first time the concept and culture of phreaking had been introduced to the general public. Upon reading the article, Steve Wozniak called his friend, Steve Jobs, to tell him about it. Jobs had Wozniak read him the entire article over the phone. The two of them (though mostly Wozniak) would develop a custom made “blue box”, a device used to facilitate phreaking.
“...it made me want to have more of those adventures by designing more things like my blue box, weird things that worked in ways people didn’t expect. For the rest of my life, that was the reason I kept doing project after project, usually with Steve Jobs...Steve and I were a team from that day on. He once said that Apple wouldn’t have existed without the blue box, and I agree.”
- Steve Wozniak
In 1971, Esquire Magazine ran an article about phone phreaking. This was the first time the concept and culture of phreaking had been introduced to the general public. Upon reading the article, Steve Wozniak called his friend, Steve Jobs, to tell him about it. Jobs had Wozniak read him the entire article over the phone. The two of them (though mostly Wozniak) would develop a custom made “blue box”, a device used to facilitate phreaking.
| Previous page on path | Phone Phreaking, page 3 of 9 | Next page on path |
Discussion of "The Two Steves"
Add your voice to this discussion.
Checking your signed in status ...