3 interesting examples of IT solutions from different decades
3 interesting examples of IT solutions from different decades 1970s - Blue Box Before Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs have founded Apple, they invented and sold an illegal phone phreaking device. It was called the 'Blue Box'. The Jobs-Wozniak 'Blue Box' was a world-first digital hacking tool, as all previous such devices used by phreakers had been analog. Phreakers used such devices to deceive the telephone system, make free phone calls anywhere in the world, plus a host of other highly illegal practices. The only complete Wozniak-Jobs blue box to have been to public auction was sold for $125,000 in 2017 The principle on which it was based is described in book 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson: "A hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle that came with the breakfast cereal was the same 2600 Hertz tone used by the phone network's call-routing switches. It could