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Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

151 pointsposted 3 days ago

by rickcarlino

(phreak.ing)

34 Comments

accrual

3 days ago

The incredible background effects with no JS enabled have me both pondering and accepting of this fantastic display.

skgough

3 days ago

It's just an animated webp. https://phreak.ing/static/bg.webp The correct amount of technology for an animated background. Very refreshing

monocasa

3 days ago

It also changes quite a bit if you enter *#06# as the number.

albert_e

3 days ago

Looks like the animated background image was sourced from: https://pislices.art/GIFS

cat-whisperer

3 days ago

+1 to that. I didn't even feel like doing anything I was just there flabbergasted by the background

Bluestein

3 days ago

Same. I, for one, welcome our Phreaking overlords.-

Bonus tip: If you dig the backgound (and, who would not), do yourself a favour and try the easter egg - see further downthread ...

Noaidi

3 days ago

I learned about phreaking picking up 2600 in Barnes & Noble‘s when I was a kid. Those were exciting times. Now everything is so damn boring.

Good memories. It was such a treat to have my parents drop me in a Barnes and Noble and pick up 2600, crawl into a comfy corner and spend a few hours reading what I only could only partially even grasp. Luckily there were so many other resources you could wander an aisle over to the comp sci section and access.

Abbie Hoffman and the Anarchists Cookbook were also a few shelves down, and yet here we are worried about kids on the internet, its harder now to come across these topics "accidentally" that it was in the library nerding out.

All the worlds info is now accessible theoretically, yet I feel it's somehow harder to discover anything novel than it was back then, especially for the young.

so-cal-schemer

3 days ago

I met a lot friends at Barnes & Noble back in the day.

I'm still friends with most of them!

so-cal-schemer

3 days ago

99th karma. Thank you for that.

NoddingPudding

3 days ago

The last paragraph reminds me a little of the short story The Library of Babel. Where all possible permutations of ‘knowledge’ is available and it all becomes useless/impossible to find.

_superposition_

3 days ago

Seems like only yesterday I was checking payphones for dialtones. I learned about the phreak scene on bbs boards as a kid in the 80s. Still the definition of a hacker in my mind.