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research lab every Tuesday night,
and I spent every spare moment I had
trying to write programs for it.
I was so fascinated by this.
We have a pointing device
called a mouse.
I don't know why we call it a mouse.
By 1968, Stanford's
Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse,
was asking new questions
about the essential nature of our
changing relationship with computers.
If in your office,
you as an intellectual worker
were supplied with a computer display
backed up by a computer
that was alive for you all day
and was instantly responsible,
responsive,
instantly responsive
how much value
could you derive from that?
navigate this new relationship.
My whole adult life has been spent
building personal computers.
So, the history of my vocation
and my avocations
and, you know,
my growing up are all the same,
and it's very hard
to separate one from the other.
I come from a place called
Silicon Valley, California,
and you'll find there are
a lot of electronics kits around.
My electronics teacher realized
that I had a lot of computer ability
that went beyond anything he could
possibly teach me in school.
He knew that as long as I was in class,
I was just going to sit around,
playing pranks on the other students
like wrapping little hair wires
around certain circuits
so when they plugged in their radio,
it would blow up.
I don't think I ever had one friend
who was not one of the tech kids.
I met Woz when I was maybe
that knew more electronics than I did.
And one of the things that Woz and I did
was we built blue boxes.
One day I picked up a magazine,
about phone phreaks and blue boxes.
When phone phreaks
have a convention,
as they did in the ballroom
of a seedy New York hotel lately,
masks are given out at the door.
People don't give their right names.
The blue box was a little device that
put special tones into anybody's phone
and those tones would connect you
anywhere you wanted.
over the phone.
There's a way to fool
into thinking you were
a telephone computer
and to open up itself and let you call
anywhere in the world for free.
You could call from a pay phone,
go to White Plains, New York,
take a satellite to Europe.
And you'd go around the world
and call the pay phone next door.
Shout in the phone,
be about 30 seconds,
it'd come out the other end
of the other phone.
And he's like, "Hello,"
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