@cooldude27109507 that movie was our anthem... it was great to be a phreaker back when ma bell got broke up and startups like sprint and ICI used 2 digit codes on their PBXs....
He's trying to find computers by dialing random phone numbers, a little bit of wikipedia history about wardialing:
"The name for this technique originated in the 1983 film WarGames. In the film, the protagonist programed his computer to dial every telephone number in california.. 'WarGames Dialer' programs became common on bulletin board systems of the time. Eventually, the etymology of the name fell behind as "war dialing" gained its own currency within computing culture.[1]"
240p, I have you now!
LedWhisky69 3 weeks ago
An acoustic modem doesn't handle the Hayes command set.
You have to punch in the number manually. Imagine all that work for poor Broderick.
That's why he has that modem on top of the monitor. He's sending commands to that instead.
er10b 5 months ago
I'm watching this video on my Commodore 64
Phi1618033 5 months ago
Gotta break out my old 56k and go wardialing...
er10b 6 months ago
Like if FourTet got you here!
heyya99 7 months ago 5
"Amazing to think with this prehistoric junk, anyone could hack into the US defense system."
But what did the US defense have at the time? :]
goatgoat 1 year ago
@cooldude27109507 - yea the 80's was actually a pretty bad ass decade to have been a kid in.
mayaswell 1 year ago
@cooldude27109507 that movie was our anthem... it was great to be a phreaker back when ma bell got broke up and startups like sprint and ICI used 2 digit codes on their PBXs....
driven2sin 1 year ago
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driven2sin 1 year ago
Sole's fish market!
all6inthelast 2 years ago 3
He's trying to find computers by dialing random phone numbers, a little bit of wikipedia history about wardialing:
"The name for this technique originated in the 1983 film WarGames. In the film, the protagonist programed his computer to dial every telephone number in california.. 'WarGames Dialer' programs became common on bulletin board systems of the time. Eventually, the etymology of the name fell behind as "war dialing" gained its own currency within computing culture.[1]"
arckeda 2 years ago 2
@arckeda yes.. C64's were perfect tools for this.. hacking/phreaking in the 80's was the bomb
driven2sin 1 year ago 2
Jeez, I thought that thing was a record, not a floppy, LOL!
Clovervidia 3 years ago
Listen the keyboard noise!!!
bah, I put in a NASA server whit a XT (RAM 360k, 4.7 MHz, HD 10 MB)...
netwalker72 3 years ago 3
I wonder if one of the numbers he dialed was Ben Stein's? "Hello? Is anyone there? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?"
Jeff98177 3 years ago 13
Ring ring ring, it's the Hondaphone
EricLindros 4 years ago 2