Computer Hacking Began with a Cereal Box Toy
How People Exploited The Network Before The Network
4 min readNov 23, 2021
Victorian Engineers built a vast network of copper cables and switching stations to relay text messages, and eventually two-way audio, between distant points. Sounds like Steampunk stuff, but it’s just the old Telegraph and Telephone systems of yesterday, that eventually evolved into the modern telecom…