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1943: The birth of John Draper
John Draper was Born. -
John Enlists in the U.S. Air Force
Once John joins the U.S. Air Force he begins to help his fellow Airmen make free phone calls by accessing a local telephone switchboard with any authorization. -
Draper Goes To The Air
When Draper is stationed in Charleston Air Force Station in Maine he creates a pirated Radio Station and calls it "WKOS" [W-"Chaos"] and after a little while does have to shut down the station due to a couple of things like objections of a licensed radio station etc. -
Phone Phreaks Emerge
Draper ended up leaving the Air Fore and moved to Silicon Valley and then he learns how to use this toy whistle that's modified from a Captain Crunch Cereal box and he uses that to Manipulate and hack phone lines through a certain process which became known as "Phone Phreaking". -
The end of the Phreaks
Ron Rosenbaum a journalist with Esquire Magazine publishes a investigation article called "The secrets of the little blue box" which exposed phone phreaks phone hacking activities to the public. -
Draper, Wozniak, and the one and only Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and Steve Jobs meet and after meeting they discuss building blue boxes used for phone phreaking which then leads to Wozniak and Jobs setting up a small business selling blue boxes. -
Life after the military
After leaving the Airforce Draper begins attending De Anza college and starts working for KUPP radio in Cupertino, CA as a engineer and disk jokey. -
The inevitable arrest of Captain Crunch
Once this article is released Draper then gets arrested and is charged with toll fraud and sentenced to 5 years of probation. -
Gonna do what he wants to do
Draper continues breaking the law and is arrested for a second time on phone fraud. -
The apple II Drapers next task
Draper begins to work for apple and is given an assignment to develop a device that could connect the apple II computer to phone lines. -
The Easy Writer
While serving his third prison sentence he was obviously bored in jail and wrote the EasyWriter the first word processor for the Apple II. -
Third time is the charm
Draper is caught again and arrested and serves another prison sentence for phone fraud. -
Autodesk
Draper eventually joins Autodesk Inc. as a video driver software designer but later was fired in 1988 after he was caught in a scheme to create fake Bay Area Rapid Transit tickets ("BART") -
Moving on up
Draper is named CTO of a computer security firm, ShopIP and he serves as the CTO until 2004 -
A genius's downfall
Draper ends up crowdfunding a campaign to help him pay for his medical bills after undergoing multiple surgeries and also cardiac arrest while under anesthesia