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Communication. The article that inspired Steve Jobs: “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” Photograph by RaD man/GFDL/Wikipedia In 1971, Slate columnist Ron Rosenbaum wrote an article for Esquire about a loose confederation of proto-hackers who built devices—little blue boxes—that could crack phone networks.

The article that inspired Steve Jobs: “Secrets of the Little Blue Box”

According the New York Times obituary of Apple founder Steve Jobs, after reading Rosenbaum’s article, Jobs and his partner in founding Apple, Steve Wozniak, “collaborated on building and selling blue boxes, devices that were widely used for making free—and illegal—phone calls.

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