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By 1970, the phreaking hobby had spread, and its enthusiasts in the know had started to gather regularly on a conference call-like system they called 2111. The name came from a misconfigured teletype switching machine in British Columbia designed for connecting multiple teletype lines at once. The phreakers discovered that if they called the number at the same time, they would all be connected at once, creating a primitive conference call.

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