Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 19:37 UTC
Using his blue box, Steve Wozniak once called the Vatican (for free), and, imitating Henry Kissinger's voice, asked if he could speak with the pope. The pope turned out to be asleep. Wozniak pulled these pranks together with Steve Jobs, with whom he'd found Apple computer not long after. Oh, how the times have changed. How can a company with its roots in phreaking, pranks, and home-made computing end up the way it is today?
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2009-06-30
Thank you for explaining to me why I love my Eee701 better than my Eee1000. The 1000 is an eminently more practical and capable machine, but the 701 has that crazy feeling of "we're trying to do something different here". Even the crappy screen is acceptable because I love the audacity of using screens meant for portable DVD players to make a cheap laptop.
Thanks again for clarifying that for me.