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2026-10-24 07:24:33

Joel Truher via Cory Doctorow

joeltruher@sfba.social

My favorite example of adversarial interoperability is the Hush-a-Phone. @pluralistic

2026-10-24 11:59:01

the esoteric programmer

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club

@joeltruher @pluralistic the what phone?

2026-10-24 12:09:17

Joel Truher

joeltruher@sfba.social

@esoteric_programmer @pluralistic Hush-a-Phone is the telephone add-on that ultimately led to the breakup of AT&T.

2026-10-24 12:57:53

Cory Doctorow

pluralistic@mamot.fr

@joeltruher @esoteric_programmer "Ultimately" is doing some work there! It was a couple decades later, and after Carterfone and a 7-year antitrust investigation, but yeah, arguably Hush-A-Phone was the pebble that started the avalanche!