The Prototype for Clubhouse Is 40 Years Old, and It Was Built by Phone Hackers
In the late 1970s, hackers forged a social media network using the dominant audio tech of the time — the telephone
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9 min readApr 5, 2021
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POV: You’re a 14-year-old kid in Atlanta. It’s 1978, and the internet hasn’t been invented yet, so you mostly get your kicks over the phone…