11:11 about laid me out. The editing in this series is absolutely phenomenal. I've been listening non-stop at the office today and will be mighty sad when it's over. Thank you so much for producing these!
@PeterCamberwick
4 жыл бұрын
Watching this series for the third or fourth time. I know this is not a particularly helpful comment, but I can't believe these videos don't get more views and discussions. I'm working my way through your playlists again. Just fantastic and fascinating stuff. :)
@evandoorbell4278
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for saying so.
@rosssilverwood6276
3 жыл бұрын
These videos and recordings are all of great interest to me. I should start to discuss and comment on them more regularly, as I am a retired phreak from many years back. (Getting into many hijinks quite similar to Evan Doorbell on his adventure tapes.).
@JimGrey
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a flat rate area. But beyond some distance -- a mysterious distance that Indiana Bell never bothered to mention, but within our area code (219), you got what they called "local long distance" -- and it was much more expensive than national long distance. There were some suburbs that were in the local long distance area and some that were considered local and you only found out the first time you called a number and got the bill later.
@evandoorbell4278
3 жыл бұрын
Did you dial 1 first for long distance but not for "local long distance?"
@JimGrey
3 жыл бұрын
@@evandoorbell4278 We didn’t dial 1 or the area code for local long distance. We did dial 1 and area code for regular long distance. Even within our area code.
@rosssilverwood6276
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore Maryland. It was heavily crossbar 5 but had a few crossbar 1s when I was way young. I used to hear a little bit of revertive conversation,. I enjoyed a tremendous flat rate area. The flat rate local calling area included all of Baltimore city, all of the surrounding suburbs in Baltimore county, many exchanges in neighboring counties, and several rural community dial offices. It was a wonderful playground.
@Thegonagle
10 ай бұрын
Interesting how different local calling areas worked so differently. Within the 612 area code of Minnesota, before any of several area code splits in the 90's, the Twin Cities and suburbs, plus all the way east to Wisconsin were local calls. If you dialed 7 digits and the call went through, you could safely assume it would charged as local. However, if you tried to seven-digit dial a number in the rural western 2/3rds (roughly) of area code 612, you would get an intercept message that said "you must first dial a 1 before calling this number." It was not necessary to dial the area code, but if it required a 1 in front of the seven digits, you knew it would be charged as an intrastate long distance call.
@RichardX0564
10 ай бұрын
Phone phreaker Steve "The winer"Yanowsky passed away this year 😔. I met him on the telephone test line in the 80s
@MichiganPeatMoss
4 ай бұрын
2024: I tag this entire journey of the "trips" with WABC's "riiight onnnnnn" at 27:09, and will do so for many listens to come.
@followerofjulian1652
3 жыл бұрын
This was a particularly delightful episode! Thanks!
@Paramount531
Жыл бұрын
Before I lived there, the community I lived in for 25 years in San Diego was a local long distance call from pretty much everywhere. It used to be a distant suburb, but growth took care of that. People who lived there at the time often had two lines, one for calls within the exchange and another for calls to the rest of San Diego as it was less expensive. This all disappeared around 1996, the year we moved there.
@AndreasDelleske
2 ай бұрын
... so you kept all your recordings in pretty good quality from the seventies..? Love your humor, too!
@evandoorbell4278
2 ай бұрын
Thanks! (You like my humor? I don’t hear THAT very much :-)) I have digitized all my 70s cassettes, but I didn’t finish that process until 2017. Amazingly, almost none of the tapes degraded at all! The cassette shells themselves degraded, but by taking the tape out and putting them in new shells, I was able to play all but two of them in perfect quality. I STILL have all the cassettes and they still sound great.
@bigjd2k
6 ай бұрын
Awesome stuff! Thanks a lot 😀
@HarvestmanMan
4 жыл бұрын
"One Less Bell To Answer", eh? Fitting.
@leroyjones6958
2 жыл бұрын
nice linefinder shelf! :)
@UXXV
Жыл бұрын
We’re these also known as loops?
@evandoorbell4278
Жыл бұрын
No, "loops" is short for looparounds, telephone company TEST LINES which consisted of a PAIR of numbers, SOME of which could be talked through. I DID stumble across loops in program 5, at 20:30, "9900" and '9906." But at the time I didn't know what it was.
@UXXV
Жыл бұрын
@@evandoorbell4278 ah thank you for the clarification! Been playing around with all this for over 30 years and your episodes have actually explained what the hell was going on behind the scenes! Thank you.
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