§ 12a · Before the Garage · LifeLog · FR

A seven-step timeline before Apple, from a Sunnyvale missile plant to incorporation, with AT&T's 1964 Greenstar scanner marked in red.

The phone company was listening first.

Between 1964 and 1970 AT&T monitored some 33 million long-distance calls to catch blue boxes, and recorded more than 1.5 million, with no warrant and no warning.

In 1971 two friends named Steve found the same tones in a federal laboratory’s library and built a box of their own. Jobs later said that without it there would be no Apple.

The garage is where the story starts because that is where the ownership starts.

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