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25 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
It's up! The Little Phone Phreak Library is a set of scans from this pile of photocopied sheets, with full runs (sometimes photocopied horribly) of TAP, TEL, YIPL and a host of Phone Phreak articles. Historical context and all readable/downloadable at archive.org/details/Phone_…
Pretty much all the information is completely and utterly invalidated in the contemporary times. But the playful and smart spirit lives on.
I should rush to say this is absolutely not the first time this material's online; there have been scans and we actually have them up online. There's even a CD-ROM available with (also) crappy scans of YIPL and TAP. It's at archive.org/details/TAP_an…
In this case, the stack was gifted to me and thanks to the ADF scanner, short work was made of it in no time. Glad to do it, all hail the Phone Phreaks, merry christmas

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25 Dec
Next scanning project
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WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS EVE

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED GIVING THE GIFT OF SKEUOMORPHISM

Well, there's an new service over at Internet Archive that just popped up and the gift never stops giving. It involves an awful lot of human knowledge, a strong dash of serendipity, and BOOKS GALORE
It's called OPEN LIBRARY EXPLORER and it's essentially an experimental approach to bringing some online version of the experience of browsing and moving among classifications. It's fun for the whole family, and at the end of it you get to read!

openlibrary.org/explore
Here's a blog entry about the Explorer: blog.archive.org/2020/12/21/wha…

And creator of this interface, @cdrini has a whole walkthrough of what he was trying to accomplish with the project here:

archive.org/details/openli…
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Well, not really playing.

Playing custom mode, The Pines.
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Pretty mall-y!
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