Re:Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987
by mbirth on Monday November 04, 2024 @06:48AM
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Oh god, yes, I remember we’ve got D-Info (German/“D”eutsches phone book) which had that feature. And because the phone books were copyrighted by the phone company’s publisher, the creators of that app hired cheap workers to manually read the phone books and type everything into a database. Similar to clean room design in software development.
When I was a kid I remember thinking about how cool it would have been to somehow scan the entire telephone book and have that data indexed differently. (I also thought it would make wardialing s ton easier since you could knock out all the known-residential numbers.)