This is dedicated to all the hackers and the crackers
I see in binary, I speak source code
Step on my toes, I'll post a million jpegs of you in a fag pose
In your digital stance, getting firewalled ho
Cause I'm riding the net in my six-fold
I was a dick with my 56
Now with my cable, I'm able to get that stable
On the out, my name is Ace and I'm a Leo
On the digital highway, my name is Neo and I'm a Nero
In a flash, I'll screw you on burning Dreamcast
You need some ISO? Let me through my hard drive rifle
Our exchange you could never stifle
In a digital hug, you just caught the love bug
I bootlegged your CD, I caused a fight between Un and Jay-Z
Your CG, it's all gonna be free
Whether we take it by force or we take it nicely
You feel that rattle in your bones?
When I tell you we just packed out Jones
And NASDAQ leaves you flat on your back
Cause I am he who loves to hack and crack
This is dedicated to the hackers and the crackers
Cereal cards, source codes, ISOs, RANs, Sips, Sips
This is dedicated to the hackers and the crackers
Hey there, this is Black Ratchet
This is June 27th, yeah, June 27th of Binary Revolution Radio, episode 154
Wow, that's a lot
People have been busy since I've been gone
It's just me tonight, but don't worry
You don't have to listen to me for like an hour and a half
We, uh, Stank Dogg had to take the evening off
He was called away on his high-powered business
I think he had to assassinate some foreign government leader or something
Actually, I've told you too much so far
I've got to take my cyanide pill
But, uh, it's something simple tonight
I guess you could even call it a special
Um, for those of you who aren't paying attention
Don't hang out on the BINVREV forums with the freaks and geeks
There was a recent major event
There's a small town in Minnesota called Wawena
And it's, I think it has a population of
Albeit about 200 people in it
But, if you're a phone freak
It's a bit special
Because this was the last place
As far as we know
In the lower, uh, 48 states
That had an analog trunk going into it
Now, for those of you who don't know what an analog trunk is
Uh, basically, it's something that's controlled by, uh, tones
A, like, say
Oh, 2600 hertz
And, I think most of you should know what that is
But for the two of you that don't
That means you can blue box off of it
Sadly, recently, they decided to, uh
Well, technically, they didn't really decide to
One of the, uh, bays of equipment decided to fail
Because it's, uh, about
I'd say about 40 to 50 years old
And they had to require the torque
Retire the trunk
However, the people up there were rather cool
And decided to put up a message board
For people to leave their farewell messages
And chit-chat and talk
So, I've just decided to take the easy way out
And since, uh, Kyle L. decided not to show up
To record the episode I originally had planned
I've definitely decided to take the easy way out
And just post some, uh, interesting messages on there
There's freaks, there's folks, there's regular people
There's, uh, telephone collectors and website masters
And there's a couple of, uh, historical figures on there
So, it's something that's a little bit interesting
And you'd enjoy to hear what the phone sounded like
About 30 years ago
So, it's a simple episode
Just sit back and enjoy
I will forewarn you
I did try to sanitize it a little bit
Because there's people out there saying
Hey, this is so-and-so
From such-and-such
In the, you know, eastern Indiana
And here's my phone number
And, um, I don't think they really wanted to be associated
With a show like this
So, I've, uh, sanitized it for your protection
And their protection as well
But, um, I kept it mostly intact
For example, you'll hear some, uh, regular people on there
Or people, not regular people
But people you are familiar with
So, sit back, enjoy, listen
And, eh, whatever
Pop a beer if you're over 21
Test, this is a test
The end of an era
Hello, this is Irving
Calling from the Netherlands
Goodbye
I used to be pretty good at just doing this
This is a test of the final message
Hello, this is
And I'm going to try to whistle off this thing
With a straw
From one of those 32-ounce
Insulated soft drink cups
Here we go
Must not be quite
2600
Okay
Let's try this again
Hello, this is
From Casco, Michigan
Between Detroit and Port Huron
Wishing you, Bob and Shane
Good luck
And the last call
Take care
It's great to hear this
Bye-bye
From California
Saying goodbye
And two
Hello
Hello, this is
In Louisville, Kentucky
And I'm going to try to
Squeak this thing off
And if I don't succeed
Or if you think this message is too ridiculous
Please feel free to delete it
A brief comparison of the N2 terminals with the N1 predecessor
The N2 terminal could have 96 channels in a 11 foot 6 inch bay
Where as opposed to the N1 was only 36 channels
The power per channel end was 28.8 watts on the N1 versus 4.8 in the N2
Channel frequency response in the N1 was 220 to 3040 at 3 dB down
Where as the N2 was 200 to 3400 hertz
Net loss stability was 4 to 1 improvement on the N1 with the N2
Commander tracking error was 1.4 dB worst case in the N1
As opposed to 0.07 in the N2
Peak overload factor in the N1 was plus 5 dB
Whereas it improved to plus 10 in the N2
Yes, this is
From Cleveland, Ohio
The information I provided comparing the N1 and the N2 terminals earlier
Was provided from the history of the engineering and science of the Dell system
Transmission technology 1925 to 1975
I did want to point out as well
That the N2 was a fully redesigned solid state replacement for the N1
The N1A repeater was also a solid state design
That was rushed out to replace the N1
Although it was not a very creative use of the solid state technology
N2, however, was fully designed as a solid state circuit
Goodbye and good luck
Good afternoon
The Bell Telephone Company brings you the correct time
2.05 and 30 seconds
This is a recording
Hello, this is Mark Bernay calling from San Francisco, California
I normally make calls using voice over IP
But I'm making this one over a real SBC phone line
Because it'll probably make the whistling that I'll do later work more effectively
If you'd like to learn more about these types of carrier systems
And the old telephone network where this kind of stuff is very common
Please go to my website that I run with, Evan Dorbel
And now I'm going to whistle this off with a real honest-to-God Cap'n Crunch whistle
From the old cereal boxes
Good
That didn't work, did it?
Well, I whistled off the time
So let me see if I can whistle you off
No such luck, I guess
I wish I had my whistle
Hi, this is calling
From Wakefield, Mass
I'm part of the Telephone Museum
In Ellsworth
And I guess I have to record a message on this circuit
One last time
If I get a chance and it hasn't been taken down too soon
I'll have to get my 2600 dial pulse test set
See if I can dial in to some different
Final stations
On the station end of the switch with 2600 pulsing
But probably won't be able to get it out before this is taken down
Take care
This is Bob Bernay
Hi, this is Millington, Michigan
I wanted to call on this last N2 system
I started my career back in the late 1970s
And we had Lynch version of N2
Which is a B410
Which was direct connected to
End-to-end compatible with Western N2
Which they had on their end
The bell end of it
Also had some ON2
Which was a tube type carrier
So
Anyway, good luck
And this is
I didn't realize there was any of this stuff still in use
So it's fascinating
Bye
Hi there
This is
From Telephone World
www.dmind.com
I was just calling here
To check out the system
For one of the last final times
Before the N2 goes away
If Shane listens to this
Hopefully things go well
With the transfer over to the T1s
I'll talk to you all sometime later
Bye
I'll talk to you all
Bye
Hi, Bob and everyone else.
This is Charlie from the East Coast.
I don't know how many digits that switch is looking for coming in, whether it's DP or what,
but I couldn't get anything but reorder tone out of it, and my TPS-59B is tired.
That's what happens when something sits around for 25 or 30 years, all the capacitors die in it.
Good luck, and sorry to see this go.
Kind of a sad, historic day.
Take care.
Louisville, Kentucky, here to whistle this thing off with a packet 8 line
and see how the whistle and how the $2,600 I'm about to send down the line gets transmitted.
Well, probably just get a little bitty cheap, but packet 8 lets you talk to an on-hook connection,
whereas AT&T will not let you talk to an on-hook connection.
So I'm sure as soon as this thing went on-hook, AT&T would cut me off immediately,
but I couldn't talk anymore even if I wanted to.
Anyway, this $2,600 is being generated by what was once a touch-tone dialer program for the Linux operating system,
which dials touch-tones through your sound card.
And I modify it to be an MF dialer and also put in a 2600 Hz tone as one of the things you could dial with it.
So this is going to be coming out of my sound card and going into the microphone,
the ear, the mouthpiece of my telephone, and here we go.
This is Jeff in Atlanta, Old Southern Bell Territory, and I'm on a Barry 314-8.
Let's try a 2600 in front of that.
Yeah, this is Captain Crunch here, and I wish I could blow 2600, but I haven't got any more teeth.
Thanks. Farewell to the N2 carrier system, last in the country.
Oh, man, I wish I could go with you.
It's been a great, great time, I have to admit, Mr. N2 carrier system.
We've all had fun playing with you.
Bye-bye.
Captain Crunch, over and out.
Wow, this is pretty historic.
This is Charlie again from the Boston area.
I think it's Jason.
I've got to thank you for letting me know that that thing you think is looking for MF
in terms of the addressing digits rather than SF.
Of course, a lot of you probably know that on a lot of old switches that used SF signaling,
step-offs and whatever, they just used dial-pulsed SF,
which was turned back into E and Emily pulses at the switch.
So I thought this might have been doing that.
I tried a few MF digits, and I only got reorder from that, too.
And, Jason, you can fool the AT&T side to let you talk to or listen to reorder coming from an on-hook.
Just make sure that your 2600 is on there as you place the call so it never goes off-hook.
It won't mind seeing the wink from the other end when you unapply and apply the 2600.
But if it goes fully off-hook, like answering the recording,
you can check the off-hook timer, so to speak.
It's a software timer today.
That's when you get into a problem.
That prevents a certain method of toll fraud that a lot of people used to use a long time ago.
Anyway, take care.
And it's pretty neat to listen to all these chirps,
and I have to say all these crazy people.
We'll have to listen to this thing.
Maybe someone can tell me.
I'm pretty sure that N2 does not have 2600 cycle signaling built into it.
If it was like N1, it had 3700 cycling built into it.
No one ever used it.
It wasn't very good.
So everybody always applies separate 2600 signaling equipment.
I suspect this is Westcom or Tellab.
Tellab 2600 signaling equipment on this circuit.
Bye-bye.
Hi, this is Charlie from the East Coast again.
I just can't leave this thing alone.
I just have to say to Bob, and I don't know Shane,
but this is one beautiful-sounding carrier system.
Boy, has it been well-maintained, and levels are really good.
It is clean and nice and truly toll-grade.
I forgot how good that stuff could sound when it was really working right,
and this one is.
Take care.
This is recording.
Oh.
Good timer.
Hello.
I'm going to try to ring off this thing with a genuine Captain Crunch whistle.
I picked it up on eBay as a, oh, little piece of telecommunications heritage,
for better or worse.
The whistle actually has two chimes to it.
It came with a box of Captain Crunch cereal, of course.
One chime, to make it work properly, well, here it is.
Oh, I don't know if my last message recorded or not,
but it looks like even if both tones are sent,
it will certainly detect the proper tone.
I'm going to try this again with just a single 2600 hertz tone,
and I guess there won't be too many chances for this to happen again in history,
except for those who decide to keep a few end carriers working themselves with 2600 hertz signaling.
Anybody got another end for an end carrier?
I got one.
Talk to you all later.
Hello.
Calling from a historic number five toll test board.
Another dinosaur.
I'm going to attempt to whistle off.
I tried to do this earlier, but I don't know if the message is recorded.
I have a Captain Crunch whistle that I picked up on eBay as part of our telecommunications heritage.
And to describe the whistle, it has actually two tones.
One of them is about as close to 2600 hertz as you would care to make.
I don't know who designed the whistle, but they must have had some ulterior motives.
The last time I tried this, blowing with both tones will knock it off.
So I will do so and wish everybody good luck.
And, well, I guess the T1 always has good luck because they've been around for a while too now.
So, anyway, so long and farewell.
This is Charlie from the east again, Boston area.
I just wanted you to know it takes seven digits of MS.
No ST, no KT.
That's what the end office needs.
That's all.
Okay.
Hi, this is from Denver, Colorado.
In the 1970s, I did a fair amount of playing with the telephone network and eventually was lucky enough to get a job with the telephone company that serves this region and have just recently retired.
Yeah, N2 was a type of carrier we had around the New York area an awful lot.
And I certainly used it to great advantage.
It's amazing the routes that we were able to construct from the local network in the New York region.
And it was a great deal of fun.
And as far as we know, so this is the last SF link as far as we know.
It's, I guess we're lucky that the REDCOM, I guess, doesn't support signaling system seven because it would have been kind of not a whole lot of fun to have a nice analog carrier link with no way of signaling.
So, I thought I would leave this message on what sounds to me like an asterisk system.
We'll find out in a second, I suppose.
And have a good day.
Hello, party.
This is Al Bernay from Los Angeles.
I just found out about this carrier disappearing.
And I'm almost in tears.
It was very traditional back in my time.
And one niner, eight niner is the last I heard of an N1 carrier for Catalina Island.
You could whistle off the last four digits, but not the prefix.
Then you could redial the last four digits by whistling.
Then I think they went to N2 for a few weeks.
And then that was it.
So, I am in mourning.
Goodbye.
Well, hello.
This is Joy Bubbles in Minneapolis.
Joy Bubbles is all one word.
And, yeah, I was whistling back in 1954 and 55 when I'd call Mommy Collect.
And I'd say, I'll whistle you goodnight.
And I'd go, whistling.
And it would click clunk, clunk, you know.
And the operator would come in, are you through?
Are you through?
Of course, it was operator only back then.
And you'd say, that doesn't sound at all like 2600.
Well, it isn't.
It's 1600.
But I can still, I think I can still whistle 26.
I'll try that in a minute.
But I'm looking for some information.
Speaking of tones, if you know the frequency that was used in telephone calls from trains over VHF radio,
it was single frequency, long tone to get dial tone, kind of a second, then pulse for dial pulse, rotary dial,
and then another long tone when they were ready to hang up.
It was between about 22 and 2400.
If some railroad buff can find that, it was used on VHF all over the country, I think, like 160 or 161 megahertz, megacycles back then.
You can reach me at Iowa, 641-985-5999.
And what else but extension 2600?
Would I have any other extension?
Oh, that's right.
I almost forgot.
There is another 2600 or N1 or N2 carrier link.
And the last of all places, 907-295-2600 is a non-working number.
8888 is one of those where you get the answering machine and it tells what the temperature is and the electricity is on.
And then you have, I think, 10 seconds or so to monitor the room, something like that.
And that's 297-295.
Not living good, but living good.
L-I-V-E-N-G-O-O-D.
Can I still remember how to whistle 26 like I used to?
Let's see.
My lips are dry.
Hey there, this is in Palo Alto, California.
And I just wanted to call and say thanks for putting up this wonderful system.
It's a lovely bit of history.
I'm actually working on a book and a website on the history of phone freaking.
And if anyone has any stories or anything they'd like to contribute, please give me a call.
You can reach me at or send email to.
Thanks so much.
Bye-bye.
Well, this is Joy Bubbles in Minneapolis.
In case you want to monitor the NASA feeds and the air to ground and stuff, they have a bunch of lines.
321-867-1220.
And let me just see how it sounds when I do some old dial pulsing.
I used to whistle dial pulse.
That's what got me the name of the Whistler anyway.
Except in Fort Myers, Florida, I could go over there and stay at a motel and they didn't ticket on area codes plus 555.
And I could actually just flash and get the wink because the NX-1 crossbar then actually had kind of DC flash through.
So I could flash and get a wink.
And instead of whistling, I could dial on dial pulse.
And the dial pulses would go right through non-ticketing.
Boy, was that ever a long-distance haven back in 1970.
Well, anyway, it's changed since then.
Their NX-1 that they have now just doesn't sound the same.
DMS-100?
Oh, really?
Anyway, let me do some dial pulsing here.
Cut it right off.
Let me do some short pulses.
Let's see what happens.
Do it a little longer.
I can tell frequencies by ear between about 1 and 2 percent on the number of hertz.
So I wish I could go back and delete my own messages so I won't pick up so many.
I'm going to do one more anyway.
I just want to do some short and longer pulses.
It doesn't take a long one to whistle it off.
It's just about 300 milliseconds, I guess.
Pretty quick SF unit.
Some of the older ones were like 750 milliseconds years ago, back in the 50s and stuff.
Well, 1600 had a worse talk-off problem anyway than 2600.
But anyway, let me get my lips ready here.
If I do it short, that was probably about 100, 150 milliseconds.
Yeah, I could skip through the messages with the pound sign, which is convenient,
since I've heard the previous ones.
Let's go just a little bit low.
Hello, this is Joe from Boston.
I'm going to see if I can whistle this off.
It may not work.
I hope it works.
I don't know.
Oh, it didn't work.
I wonder why.
Huh.
That is interesting.
Let me try it again.
This is Russ.
Just paying my last respects.
Goodbye.
Good afternoon.
Good morning, folks.
This is Joe from Boston, Tuesday, May 30th, 2007.
9-19.
I used to use my voice like Joy Bubbles did, and I got caught with a phone company.
I would like some help in getting a few of those Captain Crunch whistles so I could have one.
My email is...
You could send me an email.
And I'd like to get that whistle.
I'm going to try whistling this off here because this is not illegal.
This is just a test.
Hello, this is Joe from Boston again.
I whistled it off.
It worked right.
It's Tuesday, May 30th, 9-26.
9-21 a.m., sorry.
If anybody wishes to reach me, my phone number is...
I was doing this like Joy Bubbles and Bill Acker in the 60s.
I mean, the 80s.
I got caught, though.
I didn't...
I used a tape recorder with the MF tones, and I would go to pay phones and do it.
So I'd like to get one of those boxes, just a relic, just to keep.
And if anyone could help me, I'd appreciate it.
But this is the last of the Mohicans.
It's too bad they don't leave this stuff around.
I'd like to get...
There used to be a device you can buy.
You can hear everything.
It's a little telephone device, like a telephone, like a box with this type of equipment set up.
You can hear the tones, and you could whistle them off.
So I'm going to give one more whistle.
And my phone number is...
I'm a friend of Joy Bubbles.
This is the last of the Mohicans.
So if anybody can be of some help with an extra whistle or two, I would appreciate it.
Oh, this is...
And it worked.
And I wanted to say thanks to the people for putting this up.
And I just wish they would leave it around.
But I did the whistle, and it does work, and it's legal.
We're not breaking no law.
This is just put up as a test.
You leave a message, and you can hear it on the other end.
So thanks a bunch.
Remember...
Bye-bye.
So I want to see if this times out if I stop talking.
But the time number, you can get an on-hook supervision time on 488-8463, which spells time.
And then 488-8464 will be the time that goes off-hook, and you can hear the hang-up.
Well, now I'm going to dial my mailbox in Brisbane, Australia, where I whistled with my lips into it, and play the greeting that has the 2600 on it, and see if we can whistle off from Australia.
There we go.
Let me give a ring, Australian ring, a few times, I think, before it goes into the voicemail.
A little whistle off from Australia.
I guess there's no reason why not, but...
Hi there.
This is Joy Bubbles.
I'm a blind person.
Whoops.
It didn't take the...
Whoops.
I dialed the wrong one.
That's what happened.
There.
Now I got the right Australia box.
That's what happens when you have too many mailboxes.
This one will be the one.
I had the other one on speed calling.
Kind of a noob, but wishing everybody a good day.
I don't know, man.
Whatever, dude.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, late.
I couldn't get...
Hey, listen, this is Silence out of Massachusetts.
I'm actually kind of new school.
I actually wanted to start a radio show and, you know, just go over this stuff again.
You know, I've got old recordings of things and stuff.
I just, you know, want to learn more about different things.
I want to talk to people like Joy Bubbles, this Joe from Massachusetts, this guy from Lynn, and etc.
I want to learn more.
I want to have some people on the show and, you know, do a few things once I get things set up.
If anybody's interested in, you know, sharing the knowledge, give me a call at area code 248-724-0111
and leave a message.
That's my voicemail.
I check it every four to six hours, even sooner than that, usually.
Have a good day.
Bye.
Hi, this is Josh from Pittsburgh.
I hope everything goes well with the transfer from N1 to, excuse me, N2 to T1.
And thanks a lot for setting this up.
Yeah, this is Joy Bubbles.
If you're interested in hearing documentaries about the history of the bell system, there's an eight-part documentary called Hell's Bells that I put up on eight consecutive voicemail numbers.
The access is 641-297-4900.
And then the 7811 through 7818 are the eight parts.
They're about a half hour each done from California, although I got them through Australia.
But anyway, they're on there, 7811 through 7818 on the 641-297-4900.
Testing, one, two, three, four, five, five, four, three, two, one.
Hi, this is Dana calling from Griffin, Georgia.
Just thought I'd come in and see how this thing works.
And sad to hear the system is being changed.
That hang-up sound, that bleep sound, has been around for a long time.
And I hate to see it go away.
So thought I'd leave a message on here, too.
Everyone take care.
This is Dana in Griffin, Georgia.
Unless they've already changed it over, I don't know.
I'm not hearing anything.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Before, you know, you'd hear clicks and you'd hear a little whistle, you know, a little tweet or whatever.
No, I'll try it anyway.
But if not, if you dial into the other thing, let me release that.
Okay.
Thank you.
Hi, this is East Palladka, Florida, saying goodbye to the last of the inn.
I started my career in 1963 in Florida, working on N-Carrier, North CX, and other older equipment.
Through the years, we went from Lynch and Western Inn to Panhandle to Lenkert LN, eventually Lenkert 47A.
Wrapped my career up at N-Carrier, working on VOIP.
In the middle, I had the pleasure of ordering the first DMS-10, Fort White, Florida, which went into service in October of 1977.
So we have the old N saying goodbye to the DMS-10 on the other end.
Bob and Shane, look forward to seeing you one of these days.
I'm going to get up there.
Adios.
Listen, I'm going to try to whistle, too.
Oh, this is awful.
Hello.
This is silence here.
Leaving a message to say goodbye to the SIN-2 carrier.
Anybody can reach me at 248-724-0111. Bye.
This is in Dalton, Georgia, on a 2500 look-alike set.
Just saying that this is a very interesting setup here, and sorry to see the M2 carrier go.
I guess there's one still left in Alaska, but this will be it, I guess, in the lower 48.
Take care.
This is from Huntsville, Alabama.
I have no idea what this is about.
Somebody gave me this number and the 07 number.
I'm not a phone person. I don't know what it's about, but it sure is different.
Yo, what's up? This is Lucky225, and I'm going to try and whistle this carrier off with this Captain Crunch whistle.
Hi, this is from San Francisco, California.
And since no one's time stamping, I'll tell you that it's 649 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 3, 2006.
Goodbye, N2.
I'm not going to try to whistle this system off, but I will tell you a quick story about the late 70s when I was working for Compath,
the largest interconnect company in California.
One of my clients was Charles Schwab & Company back when they were headquartered in San Francisco.
And down in our switch room, we had a speaker and a patch bay,
and we would often listen to trunk traffic waiting for trunks to clear while we were doing testing.
And one day, I'm sitting there talking to my counterpart in New York,
working on a tie line that used 2600 single-frequency signaling,
and calls going on the speaker, and we're not really paying much attention.
My colleague and I were just talking about what we were going to do.
And suddenly, the parties on that line hung up,
and 2600 came blasting out of the speaker and cut off my phone call to New York
by getting into the transmitter of the switch room phone.
I later found out that one manufacturer, and I believe it was Ronewell, on their Confidencer line,
actually made a 2600 filter that would go in switch room phones to prevent that.
So I thought that was kind of a fun thing.
And it was also kind of fun listening to all the other messages on this line
and hearing a little bleep of SF at the end of each one.
And that's something that I never even realized that I missed.
But you could always tell when a call disconnected from hearing that.
And you can't tell anymore.
Sometimes you're talking to silence, and you think you're still connected.
So I'm going to drop supervision from this end the conventional way by cradling the handset.
And thank you for the opportunity to go on record.
Hey, what's up?
This is Lucky225.
I'm calling from a Vonage line, which apparently is not using AT&T as its long-distance carrier
because I did not actually dial 218-488-1306.
I dialed 218-488-8463, which stated previously on this message board the time number is on hook.
There's no supervision on that phone number.
And I was able to whistle off the time, and I MF'd 288-1306.
I'm sorry, 488-1306 to get to this, and I'm now recording this message on a blue-boxed call.
What's kind of interesting is after you blue-box, there actually is answer supervision.
So had I placed this call from a landline or something, it would actually show that I dialed 218-488-8463 on the phone bill
when I'm actually talking on this phone number.
I actually got a bill from MCI showing me dialing 218-488-1337 when I had whistled off the we're sorry message
and called the time number back when it supervised, or maybe I called 8464, I'm not sure.
Anyways, I'm going to use my Captain Crunch whistle to whistle this off, and yeah, ladies.
Well, this is Joy Bubbles at 641-297-4900, and extension 8555 is my personal box on the voicemail.
Anyway, to Keith, since you ordered the Fort White, I guess I might as well contribute my little piece of history
on that Fort White DMS 10.
I'm a blind person and love to listen to things,
and I tended to like to be on the first night that things cut over, you know,
like I was on the first TSPS in Morristown, New Jersey, dialing in from Florida to listen to that in 1969,
and the first 1A in Chicago in 76, well, the first 4E, 4ESS super switcher,
I dialed into that in early, you know, early 76 before it was cut over,
a test board plugged me into the trunk so I could hear it and stuff before it even cut to Chicago 7,
and those kind of things.
Let's see, there was something else I was going to mention before Fort White, but, oh, yeah,
cellular in Chicago, the field trial on the 820 exchange, it was a non-commercial trial,
and I noticed that one of the trunks in there was going a steady off-hook, and I told them,
and they said, you know, they had been, we'd been having billing problems,
and we thought the cellular somehow system was somehow erroneously billing,
and I said, no, it's just a 1A266 trunk with something coming from the 4A to the ESS
that, you know, needs to have that circuit pack changed that gets off-hook immediately
and will never go on-hook no matter what you do.
Well, anyway, about Fort White, being that that was the first DMS 10,
I was up on it that night, and one of the things I noticed is that it flashed on Busy,
and so I called up, and, oh, and another thing I noticed is on the AIS,
which I think Bell went to Bell's AIS, as I remember, but anyway, that was a long time ago,
but anyway, when the AIS goes on-hook, and then it waits, you know,
if you wait, an operator will come on to help you, but it goes on-hook in between,
and the DMS 10 would release it.
So anyway, I called up, and darn if they didn't fix them for me right away,
they said to Busy, they just said from flash yes to flash no,
and then on the AIS, they made it joint control instead of called party control on the DMS 10.
And so that was a night that I remembered, and luckily I did,
because the first DMS 10 at the Bell's system from what's now North Hill
was the 362 Exchange in Oakdale, Pennsylvania, as I remember,
and so I was up that night, as I usually am for cuts, still am,
and I called in, and they had the same problems, and I reported, and I said,
now, down in Fort White, I reported, and this is what they did.
So the foreman said, who is he?
Well, he's a customer.
Well, don't tell him anything.
Well, he's not asking us to tell him anything.
He's telling us, and he told me what to fix,
so they interviewed me in a little cutover magazine or something.
The PR people talked to me, because I was calling up about 3 in the morning
the first night that DMS 10 set, so through Fort White,
I learned how to do Oakdale, you know,
since they had the same problems that I found,
because at that time, if a busy flashed,
after about the fourth flash, it did an answer on the old CCIS system,
and it would charge, or even on three-way, on one ESS,
that had immediate charge, so those chargeable busies
could make a one-minute charge.
So, yeah, there's my memory of the old DMS 10.
And this is Joy Bubbles with one more quicker story.
It'll be five years, this June 30th, since our DMS cut.
We were the last one in the whole 14-state quest.
Well, they have a plaque saying that,
but actually, it turned out, through an unforeseen circumstance,
we weren't really the last one,
because in Lewiston and Clarkstown, I think it is,
Washington, bordering places,
they had a 1A that was supposed to be sold to citizens in a big deal,
and they reviewed the contract, and ended up, it didn't sell.
So they actually had that 1A that was supposed to be sold after the one-year cut.
So it wasn't really the last, but we can still call it the last,
because it's pretty close.
Anyway, when it cut, I was up for five days,
18 hours a day, well, the first day, 24 hours,
and I did over 10,000 tests in the switch,
and called the quest and reported.
It was just a very few troubles.
It was a very, very good cut,
and since then, I've had the best telephone service I've ever had,
and I made up a slogan that night of the DMS thing,
I'm impressed with Quest.
So I don't know what I'm going to do for its anniversary on June 30th.
I'm sure I'll be up doing something,
but it's five years of excellent service,
so it was worth spending the money for Quest to get over to a DMS 100 from the 1A.
I've had a whole lot less trouble since they did that,
and much more delightful service.
I'm impressed with Quest.
It's a phone world after all.
It's a phone, phone world.
It's a world of numbers, a world of phones
It's a place we play when we're all alone
Every phone company drives all the days of our lives
It's a phone world after all
You can always get one more Fillmore box
If you want to stand on your own soapbox
If you have lots to say and there's no other way
It's a phone world after all
It's a phone, phone world
Oh, we had graffiti and e-voice too
When they went away, oh, we felt so blue
But for us who are blind, there's more numbers to find
It's a phone world after all
Oh, we love those numbers and area codes
And we quickly repeat what we've just been told
Until long distance ends, we don't need real friends
It's a phone world after all
It's a phone, phone world
This is Tim Hendel in Huntsville, Alabama
And we're going to try this with a piano
Here comes seventh octave E
No
And we're going to try this with a piano
Chloe
Yo, what up, it's silencer. I'm going to try to whistle off here electronically.
Again, I'm going to experiment and try to whistle off electronically.
Here we go.
I'm really going to miss this kind of stuff.
Oh, well.
All good things must come to an end.
Hello, this is Telco Bob from North Carolina saying goodbye.
Hi, this is El Jefe of the Payphone Directory.
And I'm just calling to wish to say goodbye to this wonderful old phone system that you have there in Minnesota.
Um, I'm going to miss it.
And I'm going to whistle the call off now.
Bye-bye.
Uh, this is El Jefe again.
Um, I am pleasantly surprised that there is still a system like this out there.
Because, um, about four years ago, I stumbled upon a phone exchange in Idaho that still used 2,600 trunks.
But it totally caught me by surprise.
So I didn't get the chance to make a recording of it.
Because when I went back this year, eh, they'd upgraded it to T1.
So, once again, I'm...
Oh, well.
I'm just wishing goodbye to the wonderful phone systems of the past.
And I'm going to hang up normally this time.
Goodbye.
Um, this is New Bell here from, uh, in the 320.
Uh, just a little way south of you guys there up in the 218.
I found out about this, uh, old N2 system going to be cut over.
Uh, heard about it, uh, from, uh, Lucky 225.
And, uh, up on the, uh, NSA TNT radio show there.
And was surprised to hear about it.
And, uh, felt kind of bad that I hadn't heard about it as of yet.
And it's going away.
And then I find out about it at this point.
But, uh, yeah, they're really, really fascinating stuff.
And a sad day to hear it go.
Um, not really all that old school.
Never actually had the chance to play with anything that uses the old, uh, in-band signaling.
So I'm going to see if I can whistle this off electronically for the first and probably the last time here.
Um, if anybody wishes to leave me a message, 206-350-2288.
Um, on the web there, uh, plamn.afraid.org is, uh, PLA Minnesota, my site there.
Uh, and with that, uh, best of luck.
And may the old, uh, N2 rest in peace.
Hey, this is Austin from Charlottesville, Virginia.
And, uh, just paying my respects.
Anyway, um, I'm going to whistle this off.
But first off, I'd like to give shouts out to War, who, uh, couldn't be here because of his extraordinary long-distance bill.
But he wishes his best.
Anyway, let's get this recorded.
Um, my name's Fugazi, and I want to thank, uh, Joy Bubbles for letting me know about this.
I've been, I'm kind of young, and, uh, this stuff's kind of old.
And, uh, I'll show you another little trick I learned from him.
8-6-3, Anarchy Rules.
Hello?
This is F-Sutel from Tampa, Florida.
I'm saying goodbye to the MF systems.
Hello?
Hey.
Odd.
Hey, guys.
This is Kenny.
I'm calling Pennsylvania.
Um, uh, I guess this is going away real soon here.
I don't know how soon.
But, uh, it's about 8-11, June 7th.
Uh, I just wanted to say that every Saturday night on Mark Bernet's website, which is wideweb.com slash phone trips,
W-I-D-E-W-E-B.com slash phone trips,
every Saturday night at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
If you go to that site, there's a link in the top right corner that says,
click here for online chat with other freaks.
Uh, a bunch of my buddies, uh, a bunch of my buddies and I have been going on there, and, uh, it'd be nice to see some new people in there.
Uh, that website, again, is wideweb.com slash phone trips, W-I-D-E-W-E-B.com slash phone trips, P-H-O-N-E-T-R-I-P-S.
Uh, we'd be happy to see some new people on there, so, I guess that's it.
I haven't been around long enough to experience some of the stuff that you guys know.
Uh, I'm pretty young compared to all of you guys.
I'm actually graduating from high school on Friday.
I just wanted to be a part of history here.
So take care, everybody.
Good luck.
Yo, what's up?
It's Icon of freaksandgeeks.com.
Just, uh, wanted to say goodbye to the old switch here.
And, uh, whatnot.
And, uh, hopefully we can, uh, get some more cool stuff going on here in the near future.
Unfortunately, it will not be anything like this of ancient switching.
And my VoIP is going crazy.
So, there we go.
Peace.
Uh, I'd be fulking your turn.
I don't know.
This is just spammed out on Wikipedia, the number of this thing.
It's unfortunate it was.
I wouldn't have found about it.
It seems the whole thing is dying off, hacking these systems.
If this person starts to get into it, it's kind of unfortunate, really.
I don't know.
Uh, I had to remove the spam Wikipedia username of the, uh, fulking your turn.
Eh, meh.
Uh, damn pity this thing dies.
Just one more thing you can't do anymore.
Uh.
Um, I'm fulking your turn.
I don't know if my last one went through or not.
Eh, it didn't seem it did.
Um, eh, found this on the Wikipedia spam of it.
And, you know, it's a pity it all just seems to go away before a person can actually get into it.
Uh, I don't know.
I had to take the spam out, of course, but...
Hey, this is Ponyboy from Velcro Radio, and, uh, I'm going to miss the Wallina.
I really am.
Okay, I'm only leaving this because a friend wanted me to, so, um...
Hi there, this is Tim from Edmonton, Alberta, Kira.
Just wanted to say hello and pay my last respects to the N2 and Wallina, Minnesota.
Um, hello to Joy Bubbles.
I noticed that I heard you on here earlier.
I just wanted to say hi.
I don't know if you've ever talked to me, but I've called you a couple times.
Uh, most recently about, uh, Mark Kucha and, uh, a couple times about 4ASS,
and we talked about some other things.
Anyways, I just wanted to say hello.
And, uh, hello to Ben from Boston.
And hello to Strom.
I heard you on here as well.
Anyways, uh, I guess I'll stop rambling, and I'll talk to y'all later.
It's too bad to see this system go.
That's about it for me.
Goodbye.
Hi there, this is Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, calling back in again.
I guess, uh, I just wanted to, uh, I guess I just can't, I just can't stop calling this thing.
It's, uh, quite interesting.
It's, uh, a lot of memories on this particular switch.
I mean, me, I'm not as old as, uh, a lot of the people that are leaving messages here,
and I don't have any memories of the old style, per se.
And, uh, systems like this are just about all that my generation has to, uh, to reminisce
and to experience what it was like to use the phone system, um, back in the day.
This system here and, uh, the other systems like the MF trunks on Staten Island, I believe
it was in New York, are really the only way that we can, uh, that people from my generation
are able to interact with the, uh, you know, manually routing calls, I guess you could call
it.
Um, my father, on the other hand, has quite a few experiences and is able to reminisce
about using and working on the, uh, the telephone systems in the mid-80s and, uh, 82 to 85 around
there when it was, uh, still Alberta government telephones around here.
It's got, uh, quite a few memories of the, uh, typewriter testing facilities in downtown
Edmonton, uh, the, uh, step-in crossbar switches that we were using at the time.
And, uh, he remembers, uh, using MF signaling and playing with the tones to control the phone
systems and all that wonderful stuff.
Whereas, uh, me and people that are around my age, uh, this is what we have.
This is what we have to play with is, uh, Lawina and other such systems.
I first heard about, uh, the, uh, 218488 exchange and back on, uh, what was called the, uh, SoCal
bridge, it was run by Scott back about, I think it was 2001 or 2002.
Anyways, uh, that was, that was my first introduction to the switch.
I, he basically said, hey, you know, you might find this interesting, play around a bit.
And I did, and, well, I guess now we're here.
Anyways, it's kind of sad to, uh, see this system disappear to T carrier, but, uh, I just
want to thank Shane for, uh, dropping in on my call there.
And that was nice to talk to you.
I, I hope that everything goes well with your switch from N carrier to T carrier.
And, uh, you can be assured that I'll be playing around with the system quite a bit for the next
little while until the, uh, until the change does occur.
And, uh, I guess that's about it.
I'll stop rambling now.
What a great system.
Fare thee well.
Wow, um, I can really hear the, uh, audio on this, uh, your trunk.
It's really horrible right now for some reason.
Anyways, this is Lucky225 calling back in.
I guess supposedly this is going to get cut over.
This N2 carrier is going to get cut over sometime around June 12th.
Um, just wanted to contribute a couple numbers on this switch, uh, on this 218488 exchange.
1399 will actually get you a dial tone.
I saw a couple posts on the bin rev forums over there at binrev.com slash forums.
People had found the number and they were wondering what the dial tone is.
It's actually, that's a step-by-step switch.
Um, you can get other extensions on that switch there.
Um, there's a couple other phone numbers on here.
Uh, 9100 through 9103 are some test numbers mainly.
Type 102 test and, uh, there was a, on 9103 it's an answer supervision test.
Sends a couple 2600 hertz winks.
It's kind of interesting.
Um, I was wondering if anyone else had any test numbers on this switch or, uh,
was particularly, particularly interested if there's a loop set up on the switch
or a, uh, a conference bridge.
That would be, uh, it would be kind of nice if there was a conference set up on here that
we could all talk on before the N2 goes away.
It would be nice to have a conference on the switch, uh, where we'd all be talking over
the N2 carrier.
Maybe someone will set one up, I don't know, uh, Shane or Bob.
Maybe one of them could, uh, put a conference up before this goes away.
That'd be, uh, I'd really appreciate that if we had a chance to talk on the, on a conference
on the switch.
But anyways, uh, if you guys have any other phone numbers on the switch, anything interesting,
uh, please let me know, lucky225 on aim, or lucky225 at 2600.com, or, uh, just leave
a message here on the board.
Really sad to see this old analog inbound trunk go away, but oh well.
Yo, yo, yo, what up, silence here.
Anyways, uh, saying goodbye to the N2 carrier.
Uh, man, I wish I could whistle off whatever stuff he knows right now, I don't feel like
it.
Pitiful.
Anyways, you can reach me at 248-724-0111.
Shh, peace.
Hello, this is calling from my regular, uh, POTS phone line here in Louisville, Kentucky,
served by Bell South, and I'm just calling to see what it sounds like on this system that,
uh, has lots of background noise on it, and I do not know why.
All of a sudden it just got some background noise.
I'll probably have to ask Shane about that, or ask the list, or something.
Uh, wanted to mention a couple of things.
First of all, I have created some recordings, some actual, from the phone recordings, but
they are from a VoIP provider, so they're digital in quality, of the system calling the time and
temperature lines when it was working properly, i.e. no background noise, and I've created a lot,
several recordings, the two time and temperature lines, which, by the way, are 8463, does not
supervise, and 8464 does supervise.
The supervision test on 9103, I believe it is, the loop around, I called the milliwatt on 9109,
and I called 2600 to get the intercept recording, which, if you have not heard Wallina's intercept
recording, you absolutely have to hear it. It is an intercept recording to end all intercept
recordings. So, like, uh, 218-488-2600 is currently an invalid number, so call that, and if you haven't
heard it, you've got to hear it. Anyway, I record all those this morning while the system was in its
current mode of putting lots of noise on phone calls, especially on the on-hook or unsupervised
portion of the call. So, if anybody wants those, let me know. I will probably go ahead and put them
up on my website, and once that happens, I will either call back here or get on the collector's net
list and give people the URL to where they all are. I've got to do some editing first.
Also, I wanted to tell whoever it was that was wanting a conference bridge, yes, that would be a good
idea, and conveniently enough, the number 488-2663 for CONF is not in use right now. That can get you
to an intercept, and since they have an asterisk system there, uh, it shouldn't be any big deal to
actually put in a conference bridge. Now, whether they will or not, I don't know, but that would be kind
of cool for people to be able to talk to each other over this old equipment before it dies,
before it gets cut over, which, from what I've heard, is very imminent, you know, that this stuff
isn't going to be around for much longer. Also, somebody was talking about the, uh, chat with other
phone freaks on the wideweb.com slash phone trips site. Unfortunately, I cannot use that.
You all probably don't know this, but I'm a blind person, and I use a screen reader to help me to
read the screen to me, and the chat environment, uh, excuse me for that, excuse me again, is, I guess,
java-based or something like that, so I cannot use that. My screen reader just won't do that for me.
I'd love to. I'd love to be able to chat with other, oh, you know, phone freaks from, you know,
today and yesterday, but I can't do it. I don't know if there are any MUDs or IRC channels where
people like that hang out or any mailing lists. I used to be a member of the central office Yahoo group,
but I'm not anymore because I had to change email addresses and never did get around to signing
back up. Anyway, I think that's all I've got to say for now, so I'm going to go ahead and hang up
the conventional way, and we'll be talking to you guys later. Goodbye for now. By the way, this is,
I'm going to go ahead and timestamp. Today is June, Friday, June 9, 2006. It is 531 a.m.
Eastern Daylight Time. Okay, goodbye.
If it was pot, you couldn't make a long-distance call out of Kentucky, so.
Well, it was great while it lasted. Good to hear the old N2 up again. You're going to be missed.
Hello, this is Tessette from Ohio, calling from a Western Electric 500 DM. I'm going to
whistle this thing off fairly well.
test that again. I'm going to try that one more time. Didn't think it worked. Hold on.
Hi, me name is McGregor, and it's a shame to hear the loss of the analog trunks. It's a shame.
Hi, this is number six, calling from the UK. I'm very pleased to be here, but unfortunately,
and two carriers go in, so see you on the other side. Bye-bye.
And, and we're about to, uh, try to whistle off this here phone, so, uh, I'm going to let
talk a little while and take it first. Why me? Oh, I could try. Let's see. Still there? Uh-huh.
Try again. Maybe not. Your turn, bony boy.
Well, hello again. This is Tessette from the Telephone World, www.themine.com slash p-h-w-o-r-l-d.
I was just calling to see, uh, what the status of the N2 carrier was. Uh, time stamp is, uh,
June the 10th, uh, at, uh, 2 p.m. Eastern, uh, and it looks like it's still up. It had
problems last night, it appeared. Either the trunks were full or there was something wrong
because on, uh, on-hook condition, as others like Jason Smith had mentioned, is that it
is extremely noisy. I'm assuming that's the, uh, 2600 coming back towards us, but highly
muted. But once it goes on-hook, uh, it sounds, uh, fairly normal and fairly, uh, quiet.
All right, just checking to see what the status was. Uh, Shane said that they had problems
with the T1 carrier up, uh, but they'll try again this time of the week. So, check this
out, uh, again, just to see what's going on with it. Uh, I listened to, uh, the, uh, messages
on 1307 and it's over an hour and 15 minutes now. That's just amazing how many people have
called here. Captain Crunch, Mark Bernay, uh, Joy Bubbles, people like that. Uh, I wonder if
Evan Dorvald knows about this. I'll see if I can, uh, get in touch with him and let him
know. But, uh, just definitely, uh, just one of the, uh, fun things with N2 carrier.
Oh, as others have mentioned, as far as, uh, blue boxing this is concerned, uh, it is
seven digits. You don't need KP. You don't need to start. Just, uh, straight seven digits.
Uh, very odd that way. I'm just, I'm not surprised that way, but it, uh, I tested myself and it
does work. So, uh, happy blue boxing for the last day or two. Have fun. Bye.
Hi, this is
in Millington, Michigan. What I've done for this call is to call
through an ON2 carrier system, which I have set up in my, from one end of my basement to the other.
I'm talking through an XY switch through a channel of the ON2 carrier, and then through, uh, Western
Electric, Northern Electric step-by-step switch, then over the public switch telephone network, then through
the N2 carrier on your end. And, uh, thought it'd be kind of interesting to have a call that was passing
through both an ON2 system, uh, utilizing its out-of-band 3700 cycle signaling, and then to the N2 system
with its 2600 Hertz SF signaling. And thought that would be kind of an interesting thing, and just wanted to make that call.
Thank you. Goodbye.
Hey, what's up? It's Silence here. Uh, check out this new BVS. It's a new bulletin board service.
That was just set up. It's, uh, area code 425-606-3124, or 360-226-6765, or 253-397-1224.
They all go into the same system. Um, anybody can get on there at any time.
Um, it has a, uh, bulletin board system. It has a voicemail system. And, uh, all fellow Freakers are welcome there.
Um, please.
Peace.
Hello from Andrew in Newfoundland, Canada.
It's nice to actually hear some of the sounds of an old, in band with an old Trump, so it'd be as the end of everything comes, just like the 718th Amendment.
All right, bye.
Hey, what's up, everyone?
This is Royal from Massachusetts.
Didn't hear about this dying, nor about this Bolton Board system to record on until a little close to the last minute, but here I am to leave the message.
It's definitely a sad thing to hear about this.
I am from Massachusetts.
I think probably there were quite a few people from Massachusetts as well, other than a few select people that I already know.
But yeah, it's definitely sad to see this go.
This is definitely the last one that we know of, unless miraculously we find another one.
So that's it.
No more switches that use in band signaling.
If anyone that knows me and trying to get a hold of me, voicemail is 781-382-6245.
That's 781-382-MAIL.
Or if you want to leave me a message in my laser, it's 206-600-0674.
Or it's anonymousroyal at gmail.com.
And about three more days until this goes.
That was Charles.
Hi, my name is .
I'm calling in from the 301 NPA up here in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Heard about this on the BINRAD forums.
And, wow, I didn't even know these things were still around.
So, anywho, when I'm done, I'm going to try to whistle off my first line.
So, anywho, I kind of missed all this stuff.
I'm still in high school, so I just want to thank everyone that has phone trips up on their sites,
because I've listened to hours of them.
It is so awesome to hear the beauty, the truly beauty, of the old bell system.
It's like it was alive.
So, anywho, if anyone has any stories or recordings or stuff they'd like to share,
go ahead and drop me a line at e-mail dot light at g as in green mail dot com.
I'd absolutely love to hear any kind of old-time freaking stories or recordings you might have.
So, with that said, here's to the Walwina end, too.
She was truly a thing of beauty.
It's a shame she couldn't stay it up longer for more people to enjoy.
So, may she rest in peace.
And, with that said, I'm going to try to whistle off now.
Here in Louisville, Kentucky, I'm going to try to whistle this thing off with feedback from my cordless phone.
Okay, this is new bell here one more time before she goes down.
I actually had a real tough time getting in.
I had to try two, three times, and the background noise was horrible.
It's still kind of bad.
But, I'm going to try here to make a fool of myself on the recording and see if I can whistle this off without using anything but just blowing.
Let's see if I can do this here if I can.
Goodbye and farewell to the end, too.
And, if I can't, I guess I'll end up saying it again.
Hey, what's up, everyone?
This is Royal from Massachusetts.
If I could leave another message on here, because my other one didn't come in very well.
I want to pay for another current moment.
Unfortunately, I don't have a choice at the moment right now.
But, I want to say goodbye once again to this N2 carrier.
It's too bad it's being switched over to T1.
Because, you know, it's very hard nowadays to find an analog switch.
And, you know, nothing is in band anymore.
But, I want to say goodbye.
It's definitely going to be a sad day when this goes.
I don't know.
I'll go ahead and meet my contact.
I can fill out here.
I am another phone freak from Massachusetts.
I know a lot of people out here left there and fill out here.
So, I'll leave mine.
The voicemail is 781-382-MAIL.
Again, that's 781-382-6245.
Anyone can leave me a message there.
Otherwise, you can leave it in laser voicemail box 206-600-0674.
Email is anonymousroyal at gmail.com.
The word anonymous, the word royal, all together, at gmail.com.
And, I guess, yeah, two more days.
We have two more days until this is gone.
Happy draft.
So, that's just some of the messages.
There's a lot more out there, actually.
It's about, oh, two and a half hours worth.
But, that's going to be it for now.
I mean, if we ever do another show, I might just pop the other half of the board on there,
because I think I roughed it.
But, there's some more people on there, and there's more interesting things.
But, it just gave you it.
The song tonight, you've actually heard before, was on the messages.
So, I think it was very apropos just to post it as the outro.
So, this is Black Ratchet.
And, technically, I won't see you.
But, it's DankDog.
We'll see you.
It's a world of numbers, a world of phones.
It's a place we play when we're all alone.
Every phone company thrives all the days of our lives.
It's a phone world after all.
You can always get one more pill, more box.
If you want to stand on your own soapbox.
If you have lots to say, and there's no other way.
It's a phone world after all.
It's a phone, phone world.
Oh, we had graffiti and e-voice too.
When they went away, oh, we felt so blue.
But, for us who are blind, there's more numbers to find.
It's a phone world after all.
Oh, we love those numbers and area codes.
And we quickly repeat what we've just been told.
Until long distance ends, we don't need real friends.
It's a phone world after all.
It's a phone, phone world.
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