Editing Joybubbles (section)

==Whistler==

{{external media|float=right|audio1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120303132327/http://www.radiolab.org/2012/feb/20/long-distance/ '''''"Long Distance"'''''] – A ''[[Radiolab]]'' program about Joybubbles, phreaking, and telephony; featuring historian and author Phil Lapsley. (Archived from the [https://www.radiolab.org/podcast/187724-long-distance original])
|audio2=[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08hlnjq '''''"A Call From Joybubbles"'''''] – [[BBC Radio 4]] program about Joybubbles and phreaking. Includes extensive telephonic soundscapes. Featuring documentarian Rachael Morrison, historian Phil Lapsely, [[John Draper]], various phone phreaks, and acquaintances of Joybubbles.}}
As a five-year-old, Joybubbles discovered he could dial phone numbers by clicking the hang-up switch rapidly ("[[Pulse dialing#Switch-hook dialing|tapping]]"), and at the age of 7 he accidentally discovered that whistling at certain frequencies could activate [[phone switch]]es.<ref name="dial-tone">Elizabeth McCracken (30 December 2007). [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30joybubbles-t.html "Dial-Tone Phreak"]. ''The New York Times Magazine''. Retrieved 4 June 2023.</ref>{{cn|date=January 2022}}

A student at the [[University of South Florida]] in the late 1960s, he was given the nickname "Whistler" due to his ability to place free [[Long-distance calling|long-distance phone calls]] by whistling the proper tones with his [[Human mouth|mouth]]. After a Canadian operator reported him for selling such calls for $1 at the university, he was suspended and fined $25<ref>Times Bureau (December 12, 1968). "USF 'Whistler' Stays In School". ''St. Petersburg Times''. p. B-1 (p. 16).</ref> but soon reinstated.{{cn|date=January 2022}} He later graduated with a degree in [[philosophy]] and moved to [[Tennessee]].