This is pure joy. I built a black box around 1987. Greetings from the UK. (+44)
@batlin
Жыл бұрын
Oh man, that prank call was amazing... great ad-libbing.
@CoMCPranks
7 ай бұрын
Love the prank calls! People who paved the way for the hijinks today.
@Psycandy
10 ай бұрын
you could dial a number by paddling the cradle switch on payphones - worked with most rotary and push button phones - and talk without billing. Idea was free trunk calls but dialling long numbers was prone to errors, so we used to call random long numbers then try to work out what country we'd reached. With trunk calls, failed connections switched to a prerecorded message, so if you hung up sometimes the phone would ring so the message could be relayed. The timeout on that service was 12 hours.
@simonstergaard
3 жыл бұрын
Points for not loosing the cassettes through time.
@nick56677
10 ай бұрын
That girl calling u steven had a lot of sass and spunk lol.
@freddyquiroga505
3 жыл бұрын
"He whips his snap all the time" Ahhahahah
@terryallen2514
2 жыл бұрын
I was dieing lol
@Paramount531
Жыл бұрын
I was a little less nice as a teenager, one time I held the line for the only pay phone at the junior high school right when school got out. I think I was on there getting crap from a whole bunch of students who needed to call someone. The real fun started when the principal got on the phone and tried to get me to release it, I refused and really got him angry and there wasn't a thing he could do about it. I only did it once but it was epic. I'd write down various pay phone numbers and call them, hoping someone would answer, they often did. Sometimes I'd do it from home, sometimes from another nearby pay phone where I could see who I was talking to. Good times!
@MichiganPeatMoss
4 ай бұрын
2024: So glad they posted a phone phreaking story on NPR Circa 2016 - Have been listening (and relistening) ever since. I guess I'd better consult the FLAC files if I want to hear the expletives. ;) "What'cha numbah!!??"
@evandoorbell4278
4 ай бұрын
The flac versions are the same material as MP3. Occasionally, the KZitem version will differ because of music copyright issues. All versions of this program are the same, and the expletive - filled unedited version of the prank phone call has not been published.
@mgoddard23
2 жыл бұрын
Greetings from New Dorp, Staten Island. I live 2 blocks from the CO where that sweep tone you recorded originated (though there's very different equipment inside there these days of course). Just wanted to say that I've been enjoying your channel very much. By the time I became interested in this kind of stuff in the late 90s everything was very standardized and there was a lot less fun to be had. It didn't stop me from exploring and poking around of course, but for the most part I never got to experience the kinds of things that you feature on your channel, I had to read about it in old text files. Thank you for taking the time to record all of this as it was happening and also digitizing it and presenting it here for everyone to enjoy.
@cowtippingrocks
Жыл бұрын
That prank was brilliant!
@ChrisMezzolesta
5 жыл бұрын
Shoutout for Perrey & Kingsley! I'm from LI too & was only 5 in '69 so I don't recall hearing the old dial tone ever...I did a lot of dialing in the late 70s, lots of test numbers on the 936 exchange (Dial a Joke, OTB results, Musicline, etc.), some radiotelephone numbers...Also noticed that when dialing my aunt up in Norwich CT, their ringback was the very low pitched one. Strangely when dialing from our house in Selden LI to my grandparents almost next door in Port Jefferson Station, I also used to get those secondary (non-DTMF) tones as well! Incredible that you got all this audio saved, great stuff!!!!
@evandoorbell4278
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Good to hear from another Perrey-Kingsley fan. (Be sure to check out my Phone Trips Song)
@nikolt2000
Жыл бұрын
HAHAH stop playing with the phone!!!
@ATHThomas
Жыл бұрын
I thought I was the only geek did this stuff in the 70s, To this day I have actual hardwired phones in my house but it goes through the cellular network of course. I can remember being very excited to find a phone booth or a phone everywhere I went. In my childhood home on Long Island we used 660 plus the last 4 digits of the phone number to ring back your phone.
@philyork7347
4 жыл бұрын
I'm curious what you used to make the recordings! Was it a reel to reel tape? Cassette?
@evandoorbell4278
4 жыл бұрын
Most of the recordings were cassette. A few were open reel.
@rosssilverwood6276
3 жыл бұрын
Does an intraoffice call on a number five crossbar from a pay telephone utilize coin junctors? I've lived in Maryland my whole life and dealt with number crossbar and a teenager extensively. I don't recall hearing coin junctures on intra office calls from payphones? If not, how was supervision and Coin control handled?
@evandoorbell4278
3 жыл бұрын
That's a great question! For intraoffice coin calls there were intraoffice trunks equipped with coin control. They sounded like intraoffice trunks from home, until you hung up and the return or collect happened. It was always POSSIBLE to have coin control equipped trunks to anything. But typically only inTRA-office, operator services, and coin junctors had coin control. Interoffice local calls used the normal trunks VIA coin junctors. In Los Angeles it was common to have coin trunks to a tandem and use them for local coin calls instead of coin junctors, according to Bill. In downstate New York there was only one place we saw that did that: Laurelton's #5 crossbar. 276 had special coin-controlled trunks to Gotham and Midtown tandems which handled most coin calls to Manhattan and Bronx, while calls to other places used coin junctors. This is why in HowBPhreak08 and NYCRoutings 1973C you hear 276 SOMETIMES using coin junctors and other times not.
@rosssilverwood6276
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your quick response, Evan. I have always wanted to send you a message. I was a phone phreak in the late '70s early '80s, born and raised in Baltimore county, Maryland. I agree crossbar 5 somewhat boring, but very interesting if it's the only thing you have to really play with. By listening to your hours and hours of phone trip tapes over and over again, you have answered most of the questions I've had growing up with the telephone system. I too, was busted by C&P telephone company of Maryland Security in 1981, by fiddling with an overflow circuit in a mass calling, " radio call in telephone circuit" that hung off of a crossbar tandem in baltimore. I do have a very small collection of cassette tapes recorded of the analog Network back in the '80s, someday I hope to upload these to phonetrips.com. I do have one more question or two concerning the old telephone network of yesteryear, but I can't think of it right now. Thank you for your time and chatting with me, I know you are very busy man. I'll possibly get back with you later. Enjoy your day.
@evandoorbell4278
3 жыл бұрын
@@rosssilverwood6276 Mass calling, huh? Have >I< got a story to tell. Not yet, though. phonetrips.com is closed to new content, including mine. It's "frozen in time." Contact us through evan-doorbell.com when you're ready.
@1Soniccool
Жыл бұрын
Today you can dial a 1 or not dial a 1 when you dial a phone number on smartphones and even on home phones. Now some Bell systems are AT&T or Verizon.
@ComradePoop
8 ай бұрын
no bell systems are ATT Verizon and Centurylink (Pacific Northwest Bell, Mountain Bell, maybe some more)
@steve94044
5 жыл бұрын
Love your phone trips! I hope to listen to all of them! Thanks
@Caifo
3 жыл бұрын
There’s a guy named Curt Rowlett posting your audios. Is he allowed to do that?
@TechHowden
3 жыл бұрын
He is
@jfunk513
3 жыл бұрын
what is the tune called starting at 5:00 ?
@evandoorbell4278
3 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/mW6ktoaog4l2oX4
@thepastcomesalive2082
2 жыл бұрын
I noticed that when you go to a hotel or a hospital or some sort of business, when you use their phone to call out you have to dial 9, then the number that you are calling. Why is that? Why do you have to dial 9 first? But at home you just dial the number that you want.
@laceybarbee5553
2 жыл бұрын
Long distance?
@mgoddard23
2 жыл бұрын
This is just to tell whatever private phone system that the location is using that the number you're dialing is an outside line as opposed to an extension within the building or business
@AronBezzina
Жыл бұрын
A business like that has a phone system (PBX) the phone system has local phones around the building etc and these usually have 2,3 or 4 digit numbers (eg 201 is front office phone) the local phone numbers (called extensions) usually won’t start with a 9, and the system is programmed so when u hit 9 it gives u the actual phone line to the outside world (the trunk line).also as a side note, the dial 9 is an American thing I believe , where I live (Australia) it’s usually dial 0, however this can be configured in most phone systems. I’m not sure exactly why the US phone systems use 9 and the AU ones use 0 however now that I think about it the US emergency number is 911 and the AU emergency number is 000 so maybe it’s so u can dial ur emergency number quicker as your finger is already on the button, this is just a total guess tho.
@Psycandy
10 ай бұрын
Businesses with multiple phones had a little mini-exchange of their own, to manage the routing. Dialling 9 simply told that exchange to connect your handset to an available open line.
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