How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines

[@mattsears1325]

This guy really gets his use out of a stock footage subscription

[@auggith]

😂

[@InventorZahran]

Stock footage isn't only useful for video production, but also for... (I won't finish that thought.)

[@equation1321]

InventorZahran ye

[@pramadito]

@@InventorZahran for memes

[@GreatDivideSven]

Also maximizes his sponsors. As someone who doesnt like coffee I might try this one

[@marktroup2978]

Re: the Rick Moranis “hasn’t worked since the 80s” joke... After his wife died of breast cancer in 1991, the actor, without any fanfare or self-aggrandizing announcements, left Hollywood behind to raise his kids. His comedy style didn’t get old and the roles didn’t dry up, he just decided being a father to his kids was more important. The Keymaster is a good dude.

[@skywastaken7300]

IDK What This Means But I Liked It Edit:I Just Came Back To See The Likes Lol

[@jaysea5939]

Good man, good dad.

[@JH-ee5xv]

Seriously a stand up man, I feel like he almost became a punch line with too many people that weren’t aware of his personal life

[@TheGooglySmoog]

He is a good dude. I don't think HAI's reference to his was disrespectful in anyway but I'm glad that you brought up what he's been doing since.

[@theonlynontrollhere]

He recently announced he’s returning to film!

[@juhonikula6408]

"And this nerd, who later dropped out of college to run a fruit stand or something like that" A very expensive fruit stand may I say

[@slyseal2091]

@Wacky Venky 2 trillion? Didn't they only recently become "the first trillion dollar company"

[@ambe6377]

@@slyseal2091 Dunno how to tell you this, but that's 2 years ago... You're getting old...

[@epiclava_real]

@@slyseal2091 I think your thinking about Google (Or I guess Alphabet Inc.) who announced they hit a trillion earlier this year (though they weren't first).

[@blakem2902]

Making $1000 fruits that don’t even taste that good

[@slyseal2091]

@@ambe6377 You're telling me that a company that existed for at least 15 years in it's current form took 13 years to get to 1 trillion, and 2 to get to two trillion? Is the USDollar tied to venezuelan play money now?

[@JT-SE-OHIO]

Back in the 70's, I discovered out of boredom, that if you recorded the sounds the phone made when dialing a number you could then pick up the receiver (get the dial tone) and play the number into the receiver and it would connect you without charging you. If you didn't push the buttons the system didn't know what phone to charge avoiding the long distance charges.

[@hcbs1986]

Hey, nice.

[@Bacon17855]

Interesting

[@Thereisnosp00000n]

In the eighties I had this calculator with a built in phone book. It had a speaker that emitted tones so I could use it with our rotary phone without having to use the rotor. I just chose the number on the calculator and held it up to the phone. Beep boop boop beep beep and it made the call. The real fun thing was that I could use it on many pay phones without having to pay.

[@Roeclean]

Neat

[@someoneelse7629]

I did exactly that too, but with an DTMF sender I built from a kit, I never payed for a phonecall during my dorm days. Later I got a dormroom where I could reach the phonelines to the office below trough my window, so I pushed needles trough the pair and attached my own phone with alligator clips and used it after hours when the office was closed.

[@juliencatalon293]

People would take these to the airports and disconnect all the pay phones at once. Imagine what it would have been like lol

[@Savant_Ananya]

No wonder Adam Levine said "I'm at a payphones trying to call home"

[@OldHumbleDistillingCompany]

Back when pay phones were still a thing, too!

[@hilal_younus]

@@Savant_Ananya “All of my change I spent on you”

[@olliegoria]

@@hilal_younus please, i dont want to relive the early 2010s

[@melissawatkins7332]

This is what I remembered.. I loved this segment! lol

[@juliogonzo2718]

As a delinquent teen in the 90s I discovered you could jump two separate phone lines, dial *69 to hear last number that called, then press 1 to dial these numbers. Then you would listen to: "NO you called me" "Umm, nooo, YOU CALLED ME!"

[@sissa8216]

... 69?

[@Cheezepuffs_]

@@sissa8216 noice

[@polipix_]

@@Cheezepuffs_ 69 isn’t funny

[@bigchongoose2206]

@@polipix_ huh

[@placer7412]

I got way too big of a kick outta this. Lmao. nice.

[@flashstar1234]

“This video is made possible by Trade Coffee” Everybody: Impossible

[@parinuser]

LOL

[@CubicCreeper7914]

Lol

[@australiangamer7956]

I don’t get it

[@ivanramos2599]

THAT'S SO ACCURATE!

[@flashstar1234]

Australian Gamer Basically HAI and other educational channels like Reallifelore, Real engineering and others have a track record of being sponsored by some companies like Skillshare, Brilliant, thegreatcoursesplus, one dollar shave club and others that I can’t remember. Edit: Oh yeah and curiositystream

[@norcaldeemichaels]

3:55 “This guy who dropped out of college to start a fruit stand” My company does contract work for Apple, but due to confidentiality & non-disclosure agreements, we can’t refer to said company by name in any of our company communications, either written or even verbal, so in our company, we all know it as “The Acme Fruit Company”.

[@circuit10]

Are you supposed to tell us this?

[@norcaldeemichaels]

@@circuit10 Dee Michals isn’t my real name, nor is it the name I signed on the N.D.A. I never said my company’s name or what we did, & because of Covid, I don’t even work in the industry that had me working there anymore . I was never really exposed to any good juicy trade secrets at Apple, so if the Chinese (or anyone else) kidnapped me & injected me with truth serum, they wouldn’t get much.

[@PokeShadow77]

@@norcaldeemichaels fascinating

[@dannypipewrench533]

I like this.

[@JSTheAnonymousOne]

That's hilarious, I like it

[@Pyronaut_]

“Personally, I drink cold brew that’s so sweet that it tastes like melted coffee ice cream” Hey that’s what I drink, sometimes with literal ice cream scoops in it.

[@Sydney-Casket-Base]

i never met her, apparently my dad's mom also did that!

[@Sydney-Casket-Base]

@Caferacer Wolf different strokes for different folks

[@ARMRandomVideos]

Man.. This was back in the day where you could get toys in cereal. Edit: I appreciate one hundred people separately saying that companies sometimes do that. If I didn't learn that from the first twenty, I won't learn it from the next eighty. Edit 2: Wow. Even more replies. Please stop

[@wooof.]

Lol now it's a choking hazard and they can get sued

[@JohnTheFloridaFlipper]

They don’t do that anymore?

[@minedoimperija]

Yeah

[@sk61181]

Now all you get is loads of sugar and flavouring.

[@mina86]

/me laughs eating a Kinder Surprise.

[@AidanJ___]

“Switch to AT&T for faster modem speeds and no hidden fees!” - Every AT&T commercial ever

[@nadanada5698]

10,000 Subs With 0 Videos - with a profile picture like yours were you born stupid or did you have to work at it ? ?

[@TAOEXPRESS]

@@nadanada5698 what???? that's not even relating to the video or this comment, and now you're calling someone stupid just because of their pfp?? with that logic you're dumb because of your pfp, like that doesn't make sense

[@maruftim]

@@nadanada5698 you're dumber it seems

[@channelofrandom7731]

faster means faster than aoe

[@Kimmel13]

I know right!! My bill is so high and I never have any service!!!

[@stacydowns]

Back when cereal had toys and not a chance to win a signed overwatch esports league player card

[@re57k]

And that's even a chance to win!

[@thetimelapseguy8]

Thank god those plastic throwaways wouldn't help the environment

[@hoolia4987]

👍

[@factnfiction2547]

You used to get whole records on the back of cereal boxes.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Back in the days, you can win an entire Lionel toy train set complete with layout...

[@Min-Taro]

"Do you play any instruments?" "Yea, the phone"

[@sylvisterling8782]

Yes! I knew a blind guy who had absolute perfect pitch. Not relative perfect, but the real deal! He would patch into a phreaker line by whistling the exact tone needed to open that line!

[@FirstnameLastname-bp5cm]

Fun fact, your phone calls still go through “wires”. Even cellular connections need wires for most of the distance.

[@a1locc25]

On cellular devices it depends on what they run on. CDMA definitely but GSM no it's fully wireless.

[@trueilarim]

@@a1locc25 What? How is GSM going over the oceans wireless? Through satellites?

[@timhowitz9405]

@@trueilarim GSM is a wireless standard and is what the cellular networks are based on. For example, 2g is the second generation of a wireless protocol based on GSM. Your phone calls are transmitted to a cellular tower using protocols based on GSM (such as 4g) and then most likely sent along cables, but the cables aren't using GSM as that's a solely wireless standard.

[@trueilarim]

@@timhowitz9405 I know. You really need to reread the tone of my comment. And this whole thread.

[@davidperry4013]

Fiber optic cables to be exact to connect the 5G mini towers.

[@JadeyCatgirl99]

The Captain conceals the Jade Key, In a dwelling long neglected, But you can only blow the whistle Once the trophies are all collected

[@changunjeong7758]

Yesss

[@nicholasdavoli2973]

Ahh yes the quatrain.

[@mythitorium]

Y E S

[@terabyteultra1673]

I knew it was from somewhere

[@zuka6867]

ah yes

[@tacokoneko]

in an intro programming class in university i once wrote a program that can record with microphone the beep sounds a touch tone telephone makes and then display the phone number on the screen. The program worked by performing a fast fourier transform algorithm on the digital signal, which gives the individual frequencies the beeps were composed of. Each different number's beep is called a DTMF tone, and each is defined as specific pair of frequencies. A strong enough amplitude in the right areas of the frequency domain, and the program can guess a number digit. Repeat for all the digits in the phone number, then the full number can be displayed. It even works if you press multiple buttons at once!

[@rextransformation7418]

😮🤳

[@ctoth93]

When he said "in the late 1960s, a group of hackers...", My Google Home activated and started telling me about the Green Bay Packers. I rewound and it did it again.

[@ThrottleKitty]

"group of hackers" Google Google packers? "group of hackers" Google: GOOGLE PACKERS!!

[@Brett_S_420]

That is how you know it is spying on everything you say.

[@creator2909]

@@Brett_S_420 probably poorly lol

[@timh9749]

mine sometimes activates while the teacher is talking during class

[@danielchrisronan2281]

@@Brett_S_420 that's HOW it functions... Literally...

[@w1jim]

More accurately, a "Phone Phreak" would dial an 800 (WATTS) line - which was free and then enter the 2600hz tone which would drop the call. At this point the call was beyond the billing stage. Then the "PP" enters DTMF (multi frequency) tones to redirect the call. While the touchtone phones of that era also emitted DTMF tones they wouldn't work at this stage. The so called "Blue Box" generated a different series of DTMF tones - the same ones an operator or the internal systems would generate. Or so I've heard...

[@veanell]

The movie hackers explains this better than this video does...

[@user2C47]

The tones produced by the blue box (and also the DDD equipment) were called MF and indeed used a different set of frequencies. They were also based on the phone network's internal counting system, rather than a simple XY system.

[@Condorito380]

This man phreaks.

[@ogprettyDEMOATNA]

I used to do it with the hangup switch. Depress it just over the on/off line really really quick. Without the bosun whistle it wasn't too useful tho.

[@cleanestmidwestemofan]

“It was invented by this nerd and then later sold by this nerd”

[@rubbers3]

1:29 "If you're one of the 15 viewers of this channel who've ever touched a push button telephone" Then what is the amount of people that ever had a *rotary dial telephone?* _Just me?_ Oh.

[@pogandswagchamp69]

I've used a touch button phone and still have one in our house but I've never used a rotary dial phone

[@imigsledesma]

Hi I'm 22 we had rotary dial phones before switching to push button ones Also I miss the weight of payphones

[@gunslingingbird74]

We had 2 rotary dial phones in my house when I was a kid: one in the kitchen, and one in my parents' room.

[@groton27]

that's what I was thinking. I'm like um I'm 41 my grandparents had a rotary dial phone when I was a kid.

[@varana]

I still have my old rotary dial phone in my personal "obsolete technology" corner, together with a typewriter, a few cassettes, and stuff like that. :D

[@BrainsApplied]

I have the feeling that, from now on, we're going to see a lot of Trade Coffee ads...

[@pogandswagchamp69]

Something wrong I can feel it

[@TAOEXPRESS]

im taking a screenshot of this comment so if you're right i will know you predicted it

[@moritzl7065]

I don't know, it seems like the stereotypical startup business model: Product that delivers to your door which currently is mostly bought at retail, a "weekly/monthly subscription" (to coffee?! seriously?!) and personalization. Not sure about using Netflix's business model on coffee (or other retail products, looking at you dollar shave club) is gonna work...

[@TAOEXPRESS]

@@moritzl7065it doesn't matter if anything about this company is good or not, because we know that from... _Raid._ i think i've said enough.

[@pogandswagchamp69]

@@moritzl7065 when I first saw your name I thought it was morgz

[@originalname9999]

This video really just touched the tip of the iceberg in the phone phreaking world(I know, that's what this channel is about). They where able to pull of some serious stunts that went well beyond making free long distance calls. It really is an interesting topic and there are a couple good long form vids and article out there about it.

[@asynchronousongs]

very late, but what kind of things did they do then?

[@PKDoesStuff]

​@@asynchronousongs also late, but check out the movie Hackers if you're still interested. A bunch of it is goofy, but most of the actual hacking and phreaking were based on legit techniques and practices (the 3D mainframe GUI less so).

[@FlyMIfYouGotM]

A couple of the, "Phone Phreak" guys were give a choice by Ma bell and the FBI: work for Ma Bell to help them secure the system or they would be given a new address at the Grey Bar Inn. Had a high school friend who took the deal. Fun times!

[@aryanbhaskar6502]

Trade Coffee: Check out the link in the description. Me: Yeah, sure! Brilliant, Skillshare etc.: **Gasp collectively**

[@Ewzycuh]

XD

[@fizzy7140]

HAI: wow this 2600 Hz sound is annoying Me, a violinist: *hold my 3 octave scales*

[@LividImp]

I love dissonant violin.

[@cardinalbob1]

Q. What is the difference between a violin 🎻 and a viola? A. A viola burns longer. 🔥😂🤣

[@blulere]

🎻 *LING LING 4EVER* 🎻

[@ahmed4363]

@@cardinalbob1 I don't know what viola is but is saying vi o la correct? The english language is very weird

[@crys9879]

@@ahmed4363 that’s pretty much it, assuming your vi o la is like vee oh la, together it kinda sounds like vee-owe-la. It’s a string instrument a tad bit larger than the violin and it plays in its very own clef known as the alto clef, between treble and bass

[@TheWestDESIGN]

If you're more interested in phone phreaking and technical details, I *highly* recommend *The 8-bit Guy's* presentation video!

[@odysseyguyperson]

3:53 ah yes, my favorite multi trillion dollar fruit stand, Apple

[@tenzinc1514]

its quite the lucrative market

[@odysseyguyperson]

@@tenzinc1514 froot

[@Kualinar]

Up until the 1990, maybe even later, it was possible to make long distance calls from public phones. All that was required was to tap the «disconnect» plate briefly, and emulate impulse dialing. It was not even required to put in a quarter.

[@xerofetus]

Plain Kelloggs Corn Flakes with only milk is the single greatest breakfast cereal ever. Period.

[@johnchessant3012]

That must've been a hell of a realization. First, the guy must have had perfect pitch or something; and so he blows the whistle and is like "hey, that's the EXACT frequency I need to hack AT&T!".

[@brandon14]

I’m one of the 15 viewers who has touched a push button phone. I’ve also used a rotary phone aswell. Those were the days

[@sujimtangerines]

I miss the catharsis of slamming down the handset in anger, and how the bell in my rotary phone would jingle after for a couple of seconds. Now it's just, "ARGH, YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF!!". **poke**

[@veanell]

I use one most days. I have an office job 🙃

[@wamsang7818]

Kids in school when they figure out what frequency the school bell is: *pathetic*

[@somebodylikesbacon1960]

I just realized, I could use that to Rick Roll the entire school.

[@TakeNoShift]

Mine is 500hz EDIT: Square wave.

[@wamsang7818]

@@TakeNoShift Mine is F# if I remember correctly (good thing I have someone with perfect pitch at my school)

[@TakeNoShift]

@@wamsang7818 F#4? That would be just at 370hz (369.99). F#5 would be just at 740hz (739.99). This page gives hz to musical notes. pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

[@wamsang7818]

@@TakeNoShift idk I have to ask my friend with perfect pitch

[@MARKE911]

I have a working 1929 Bell South Rotary Dial phone still on my wall. I wouldn’t have a landline if it wasn’t for the fact I have free landline service for life. What really surprises me is my analog rotary dial still works to make and receive calls. I honestly don’t use my home phone for any reason other than to show off my phone and the more frequent spam caller.

[@Freekymoho]

What I learned from this is that my tinnitus could hack phones

[@cosmonautduckling6402]

AT&T: NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!! box toy: brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@cosmonautduckling6402]

@@tyujg7495. box toy: bonjour.

[@terabyteultra1673]

seriously though, it went *_brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr_*

[@CosmiaNebula]

no it's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

Indeed 🤔🤔

[@rohanmahantesh2382]

Earlier : CuriosityStream, Skill Share, Square Space, Dashlane..... Now : Trade Coffee WAIT, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

[@KronosMXVII]

Can we take a moment to discuss how he said "Set fire to the neighbor's cat."

[@LividImp]

On the bright side, the cat stayed warm for the rest of its life.

[@Vielenberg]

No, nobody cares about that. Everybody is talking about that Trade Coffee thing.

[@jozenne0018]

That cat was weird. In fact, that was not a cat at all.

[@thewikipediabrown007]

seriously...a really unfunny weird joke.

[@Chyllstorm]

Phreaking was fun. I used to call California BBSes from Michigan, and never pay a dime. Those were the fun days back before the world wide web and internet. It was awesome having someone call into the Shadoe Boxx (my bbs- come on, I was a teen and obsessed with martial arts) at 2 in the morning to play the handcrafted Dungeons and Dragons campaign I set up on there, or one of the other games or activities I did on there. Only in the night though, had to keep my phone line clear during the day for phone calls!

[@ElliotM2007]

"if you are one of the 15 viewers who have ever touched a push button telephone" me a teenager who has a family who still receives calls on it and sometimes calls other people too:

[@inter_707]

When You See An HAI Video With A Topic You Already Know About: "Hey. I've Seen This One!"

[@notrandomtypek]

I think Nostalgia Nerd talked about it?

[@TAOEXPRESS]

stop putting a upper-case letter at the start of every word it's so annoying to me

[@TheLegoPerson]

Same! Steve Wozniac's biography talks about this story in the section where he describes the machine he made with Jobs to hack the telephone network.

[@matt_at_midnight]

What do you mean you’ve seen this one? It’s brand new.

[@notrandomtypek]

probably something Dude if you don’t know any sources of information other than HAI, I feel bad for you.

[@jacksonskyline]

Before I watched the video, I was like. “Is this about the Phone Phreaker Nicknamed “Cap’n Crunch”

[@TheSheiban]

I'm so honored to be considered one of the only 15 viewers who used a touch-tone phone...

[@pogandswagchamp69]

Me too

[@gunslingingbird74]

Ha! When I was a kid, we had rotary dial phones!

[@TAOEXPRESS]

@@gunslingingbird74 someone is 100% going to say "ok boomer" for sure and it might've already happened and my page just hasn't loaded it yet

[@gullox1804]

@@TAOEXPRESS nah, he never say that rotary dial phone were better so he is safe

[@TAOEXPRESS]

@@gullox1804 but that still doesn't mean he's safe from a person saying "ok boomer"

[@craigcarter400]

1:29 Not only do I remember using the push button phone but I also remember there were clicks produced not tones. The 0 produced 10 audible clicks.

[@editz5110]

You forgot to add the part where you had to block one of the holes in order to produce the 2600 hertz sound

[@sylvisterling8782]

Yes, the whistle had two notes it played. The higher of the two was the tone used. I never had a whistle, but I remember watching M.G. use it!

[@askiiart]

See: Phone phreaking by the 8-bit guy

[@jakecolon3]

"...a design that was perfected by this nerd" Hey all, Steve here

[@ytcommenter8156]

For the sponsorship, you pronounced "Skillshare" wrong

[@WJayH]

pronunciation of “Topeka” was also a bit off

[@geo3172]

LOL

[@plant5875]

@Austin Martín Hernández Or curiositystream, or NordVPN

[@jalexanderdatkins]

“A small local roaster, far away from you”

[@geniferteal4178]

Time please? Can't find it! Lol

[@Hotcartofa]

0:58 are we all going to ignore the fact that the person in this part of the video is calling 911

[@circleubuntu]

A toy, a toy, WHY'D YOU HACK THE PHONE JOHNNY!!!!!

[@para_magnus2200]

It’s a good day when half as interesting uploads

[@farida.]

Bruh

[@alrightstudios7091]

Yeah no kidding

[@conclusivestate]

ah yes, my almost daily dose of stock footage filled, half-clickbaity interesting facts from 4 to 8 minutes with a Brilliant, Skillshare or Squarespace sponsorship at the end

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

Our new life in quarantine Rona 2020🤦‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[@jeffreyroy1052]

Last time I was this early, this was on wendover as TWL

[@cedricye1767]

“This video is made possible by Trade Coffee” Brilliant, Curiosity Stream, Skillshare, Squarespace, -Raid: Shadow Legends- and Honey: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@leap123_]

Don't forget -Raid: Shadow Legends- , Squarespace and Honey too

[@cedricye1767]

@@leap123_ Thanks!

[@theevildrummingsithlord1492]

What about manscape?

[@Bacony_Cakes]

where the great courses plus and dollar shave club at

[@theevildrummingsithlord1492]

@@Bacony_Cakes Yo great courses plus is awesome

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Hey, I remember rotary-dial phones AND I still enjoy Count Chocula on a regular basis, thank you very much.

[@cohenfromdiscord2551]

Lol this is actually a pretty awesome chapter in the book Jobs. Both Steve’s stopped selling the hacking equipment after one customer pulled a gun on them and robbed them of it... but later said customer couldn’t find out how to use it so ended up calling them back to ask for help.

[@michaelhowell2326]

I'm glad you covered Towlie's discovery of Funky Town on the touch tone phone. It was the first thing I thought about.

[@bibasik7]

I'm one of the 15 people watching this video who has a landline.

[@IAmMrFrazier]

Hello from the future!!!

[@12kenbutsuri]

Every house still has one in Asia

[@cat3crazy]

I have a land line since reception in my home isn't very good.

[@sheejasam6567]

@@12kenbutsuri lmao I have one in India

[@vccubing7345]

Woa these are cool likes lmao

[@AnimilesYT]

I would honestly be surprised if I went to a local coffeeshop and they actually gave me coffee. The Netherlands really is an interesting place

[@sirBrouwer]

well a lot of them do sell coffee, tea, soda's for direct use. like a pub does only no beer. Alcohol and weed together can go very bad.

[@AnimilesYT]

@@jbird4478 I'm not sure if you know it or not, but in case you don't: Here in the Netherlands a coffeeshop is a place where you buy weed. Coffeeshops are legal establishments.

[@bones384]

Thank you for infiltrating the Soviet Consolate

[@derpydipper]

Thanks for this. This actually help me for my college subject

[@kellykx8120]

omg i'd forgotten about the amazing toys that came with cereal! color/temperature changing spoons used to rock! hahah

[@ya7ioo]

What's this? 2 uploads in 2 days? We have been blessed.

[@mikenick9163]

Anyone remember the early 2000’s movie “The Core”? The skinny computer hacker kid did something somewhat similar with a piece of foil to put “free long distance on a cell phone for life”. Guess they used this idea. 😂💯

[@mikenick9163]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2PKmZaPe8SFY5I Forget the video link!

[@MyNathanking]

0:59: Without watching anything beyond this, I believe I know where this is going. In summary, it seems that the whistle blew with some kind of sound that screwed up the signaling electronics of the phone lines. Those old-fashioned electronic touch tone phones operated phone lines not with mechanical buttons, but with electronic signals that were produced by pressing the buttons. Anyone blowing that whistle --- especially with the phone off the hook --- could possibly have caused some very goofy stuff to happen.

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

One of 15 hear. 😂😂😂

[@TravelFilming]

"For the 15 viewers who heard tones when pressing the numbers on a phone." There was a time when you heard pulses when dialing numbers and instead of pushing buttons you had to use a round disk with holes in them. Simpler but good times back then.

[@spiritmatter1553]

Us chicks with long fingernails used to use the eraser end of a pencil to dial them, to save our nails. Oh, the humanity.

[@FingeringThings]

AT&T charges me a 100 per month and they can't even protect their line from a cereal box toy

[@TheHiredGun187]

I remember when "phone phreaking" was huge. I coulda went to jail for it once..but I was only 14 at the time so it was just a coupla weeks in juvie.

[@Shawn_the_Protogen]

I remember the watches and lightsaber spoons. Good times.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Wire tapping in a cereal box?!

[@jevinday]

Ahh the lightsaber spoons! Those were the best cereal toys ever! We had a couple of them and my siblings and I legit used them for years as a kid haha. I totally forgot about those.

[@ce3jay196]

2:32 me watching on a galaxy note 9! how does he know?

[@TAOEXPRESS]

have you recovered from the 28 stab wounds

[@ce3jay196]

@@TAOEXPRESS just about still feel pain occasionally

[@autonomouscollective2599]

Not only did I use a rotary phone, my family had a party line. When the phone rang, you had to wait a few seconds to make sure it was your own special ring. Ours was two shorts and one long.

[@spiritmatter1553]

Wow, that’s "advanced"! I used to wish we had one. I wanted to eavesdrop on people’s conversations when I was a kid.

[@crystalsheep1434]

Haha

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Yup this is all true. There was also a tone generator that mimicked the tones that told the phone company that money was deposited in a pay phones.

[@Jcs_-ho4rv]

Two videos in one week? Am I in heaven?

[@peppermint_8]

I have a landline in my house and use it regularly. Seriously, they are so easy to hear through!

[@jmccoomber1659]

Do hey still have a designated calling area with everything farther away "long distance" with additional fees?

[@ceasersean5537]

I actually learned about this in the book "Ready Player One". Man, it taught you 80's and 90's trivia that most people didn't know.

[@jackwixson6421]

Ceaser Sean I was looking for this comment

[@Brick-Life]

i watched the movie

[@nicholasdavoli2973]

@@Brick-Life the movie sucks. You should read the book and youll see why. Or listen to it on audible it's narrated by Wil Wheaton.

[@nicholasdavoli2973]

"The captain conceals the Jade key in a dwelling long neglected. But you can only blow the whistle once the trophies are all collected."

[@bodie6783]

Brick Life the movie is ok but the book is amazing

[@davidgolden]

Btw, you can play “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

[@Kippy8472]

Poor Rick Moranis! Didn't have to do him like that 😂

[@petersmythe6462]

"One of the 15 viewers who've ever touched a pushbutton phone." Not only has every landline our family has ever had been pushbutton, our current one is corded and probably older than I am. The church our family went to had rotating dial. Apparently they could afford a multimillion dollar building but not a telephone made within the past 4 decades.

[@masonsykes2240]

My house is equipped with pushbutton phones, except for the kitchen phone, which is a built-in rotary phone from the 30s. (My house is ooooold.)

[@CEKROM]

3:23 That's a funny coincidence =D

[@Rarecommentry]

In a few years from now we will have a video titled “how HAI sponsorship killed a coffee bean startup”

[@NortelGeek]

I hear they're putting de-authers in boxes of Fruit Loops now...

[@chewy7626]

Glad to be one of 15

[@translunarinjectionstudios6104]

Me, who read Ready Player One: *laughs in big brain*

[@tgamescz9133]

hello fellow big brainer

[@MidwestSirenProductions]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembered that!! The captain conceals the Jade Key In a dwelling long neglected But only you can blow the whistle Once the trophies are collected.

[@KenhelExcallius]

This viedo is sponsored by trade coffee? is that even for real? and also do trade tea next yes

[@Bacony_Cakes]

**the british empire has joined the chat**

[@KenhelExcallius]

Bacony Cakes Yes Great Britain *Looks at my very British PFP*

[@Bacony_Cakes]

@@KenhelExcallius indeed

[@jdatlas4668]

I bet most of the watchers of this channel are too young to remember this and will be absolutely stunned.

[@CCGBacon17]

I'm stunned cereal came with toys

[@mayhair]

Of course. This happened in the mid-1960s and this channel's target audience is millenials and Generation Z.

[@jdatlas4668]

@@mayhair I'm pretty sure this worked well into the 80s at least in some places.

[@Totally_Bonkers]

I was half asleep when i watched this, so time to rewatch it

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Holy crap is this script trying too hard

[@MadsterV]

"one of the 15 viewers of this channel who have ever touched.... a push button telephone" I expected you to say rotary. damnit.

[@fsdhdfgh]

*Random Fun Fact:* The yo-yo is believed to be the world’s second oldest toy, after dolls. -SavageInfoVan

[@notlucas6859]

thanks

[@gunslingingbird74]

It was also originally invented as a weapon.

[@sirBrouwer]

the oldest toy is most likely a stick, bone fragment or anything a child good bring in to it for play. Dolls where indeed one of the first items made purposely for there use. Often with different craft's man (and his family) working on the different parts of the body (in there spare/down time). toy's made by a craftsmen (later on factories) that would only make toys is very new.

[@insanereindeer4081]

Show a picture of "telephone lines" when there's no comms on those poles.

[@Nonvegan_watermelon]

I now understand that one jazzpunk gag

[@TheMcC07]

Push button phones...my first phone was rotary.

[@josephalexis6687]

Back in the day when you had a push button telepho- Some hotels have them.

[@mikecronis]

Thumbs up here if you are one of the "15" people who used a touch-tone or rotary-dial phone. I'm guessing "Half as Interesting" doesn't know its demographic. Prove me right by thumbs-up.

[@dollatwelve]

looks like he was right 😧

[@heanstone1327]

I’ve seen this in The Pirates Of The Silicon Valley

[@brrrrrr]

I am one of the 15 people watching this to touch a touch tone telephone

[@Rubberneck1965]

*&^*! Anyone have a link to the story of an AT&T employee stabbing a customer? I searched but didn't find anything.