How 3 Hackers built a $3 trillion empire

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  • Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
  • This is the true story of how hacking phone networks in the early 70's led to the founding of one of the largest companies on the planet. Alongside this story, there is a scandal in space with 3 other characters from the same time.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 542

  • @weirdibibfishiplop3644
    @weirdibibfishiplop3644 21 день тому +1650

    what if hackers were called freakers and they touched phones in freaky ways

    • @MasT0
      @MasT0 21 день тому +146

      What if malware was called freakware and did freaky things to your computer instead of infecting it or whatever?

    • @mysteryY2K
      @mysteryY2K 21 день тому +53

      gooning to this

    • @chrisS19019
      @chrisS19019 21 день тому +16

      What if speakers were called freakers and only played freaking

    • @davidhughes4089
      @davidhughes4089 21 день тому +9

      Because that would mean freaks would need to be called hackers and then the saying would have to become "lady in the streets and a hacker in the sheets" which is nowhere near as catchy

    • @leibniz4455
      @leibniz4455 20 днів тому +1

      And doing freaky things to computers will result to a criminal charge?

  • @Solar9391
    @Solar9391 21 день тому +1858

    Disrupt posting is like finding $100 in your pocket.

  • @prispalos
    @prispalos 20 днів тому +193

    I love that the old style of Disrupt is coming back, but I really miss the Adult-Swim-esque bumps in between the stories. It really made the channel feel like a forbidden TV channel from the early 2000s.

    • @TheBlakus420
      @TheBlakus420 18 днів тому +4

      Very true

    • @nokimokii
      @nokimokii 18 днів тому +4

      Yeah, 100% agreed! Please bring back those skits @Disrupt

    • @alyssavannelli
      @alyssavannelli 15 днів тому +3

      its expensive and they dont do as well as they did before, i’m guessing it’s a smaller team too

  • @johnxina2140
    @johnxina2140 21 день тому +684

    The irony of steve jobs starting out working with hackers to circumvent fees to apple now being THE home of money sucking is crazy

    • @plebisMaximus
      @plebisMaximus 21 день тому

      You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself suck your customers dry

    • @jurnoss
      @jurnoss 21 день тому +28

      New management, steve would’ve been on to bigger things than current apple

    • @sdg131
      @sdg131 20 днів тому +27

      ​@jurnoss maybe if he believed in medicine he would have lived.

    • @jurnoss
      @jurnoss 20 днів тому +16

      @@sdg131 his ignorance and arrogance killed him

    • @onemoreguyonline7878
      @onemoreguyonline7878 20 днів тому

      Steve's work on the blue box

  • @prakashraj4519
    @prakashraj4519 21 день тому +375

    This is the old school disrupt, multiple random stories sandwiched together... enjoyed it.

    • @LavaCreeperPeople
      @LavaCreeperPeople 20 днів тому +5

      Yes

    • @gallbladder54
      @gallbladder54 19 днів тому +3

      im so happy that disrupt is back to making this style of video

    • @kennykaniff
      @kennykaniff 6 днів тому +2

      Yea totally agree

    • @julikaiba
      @julikaiba 2 дні тому +1

      just that the transitions werent as clear to me as back then, at first I somehow didnt notice its different stories (no idea how, maybe I didnt pay enough attention)

  • @avengersracing
    @avengersracing 21 день тому +517

    Watching a 2 minute old Disrupt video on a plane. Doesn’t get better then that

    • @KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza
      @KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza 21 день тому +12

      :3 I'm bout to bom-

    • @devuclear2269
      @devuclear2269 20 днів тому

      Where are ya going?

    • @its_alex4397
      @its_alex4397 20 днів тому

      Wish I was living in that moment th

    • @doriyahh
      @doriyahh 20 днів тому +1

      Breathing in everyones farts

    • @Jerry-Jardorc69
      @Jerry-Jardorc69 20 днів тому

      Disrupts the planes signals and crashes into another plane on takeoff😮

  • @jchastain789
    @jchastain789 21 день тому +105

    My dad would talk about this. And also Is a hacker. When direct TV satellite TV came out he hacked those cards and sold them
    We always had every channel and all the paid movies. Freaking awesome

    • @jchastain789
      @jchastain789 21 день тому +12

      I even remember he put windows on his TomTom (old GPS stand alone system.) Lol said windows u.i. was way easier to use. I just laugh

    • @backinyourcommentsectionag3191
      @backinyourcommentsectionag3191 20 днів тому +6

      Phreaking awesome* :D

    • @carperfjord8748
      @carperfjord8748 20 днів тому +1

      That’s sick actually 😮

    • @eventhorizon2264
      @eventhorizon2264 15 днів тому

      Your dad is cool as fuck 😢​@@jchastain789

  • @themanjeff3406
    @themanjeff3406 21 день тому +238

    Disrupt's upload schedule is like that one abusive uncle. He does it once in a while and then acts like nothing happened.

    • @mysteryY2K
      @mysteryY2K 21 день тому +23

      and then he does it while you're sleeping

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht 21 день тому

      In’t it a company?

  • @teyandei9713
    @teyandei9713 18 днів тому +13

    Schopenhauer once said “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between waiting a Disrupt and a Lemmino video”

  • @MrSrikarprasad
    @MrSrikarprasad 21 день тому +21

    Your style of storytelling is such a treat.

  • @saneboysoup4168
    @saneboysoup4168 21 день тому +11

    What if instead of "phreaking" it would be called "freaking" and instead of hacking phones they would just suck each other off?

    • @kennykaniff
      @kennykaniff 20 днів тому +3

      Sounds like one of your fantasies if you ask me
      🤘🏻🇬🇧

    • @saneboysoup4168
      @saneboysoup4168 20 днів тому +2

      @@kennykaniff it's more of a moral question than a fantasy but I think we can agree that Wozniak indulging in such acts would definitely not be a pleasant sight to behold.

    • @kennykaniff
      @kennykaniff 20 днів тому

      @@saneboysoup4168 hey, there's a market for everything and there's a ton of people that would pay for it😂 We could contact Woz and see if he wants to go into biz with us. Even 3rds across the board. Your fantasy I MEAN IDEA, my bizness plan and Woz's mouth😂😂😂 If Woz isn't game then we just hire some gimp. Fk yeah, I think this will work partner!! When do we start?? I'm available tomorrow!!! Let me know
      🤘🏻🇬🇧

    • @deesire3337
      @deesire3337 11 днів тому +2

      @@saneboysoup4168kinda metal tbh

    • @talkington243
      @talkington243 6 днів тому

      what if instead of disrupt it was called freakrupt and instead of making videos about hackers and stuff they made videos about oiling up peoples toes and putting them in peoples butts

  • @JA-tp2mj
    @JA-tp2mj 18 днів тому +3

    This video is awesome, its sad how underrated this kind of content is today, great work!

  • @studiobysurf
    @studiobysurf 21 день тому +7

    Massive improvements over the board with the voice over and soundtrack!

  • @internetpizza
    @internetpizza 21 день тому +30

    i was skeptical of having a new narrator but yall have been killing it after the changeover. great work!

    • @fender7083
      @fender7083 20 днів тому +3

      Finally someone else noticed. I remember him trying to sell his channel

    • @countervolition
      @countervolition 20 днів тому

      Sounds awful dude, terrible non native accent + he sounds like that one guy that makes project zomboid videos

    • @kennykaniff
      @kennykaniff 20 днів тому

      ​​@@fender7083 I remember him trying to sell the channel and get people to invest for some ungodly inflated number. The scam!😂 Are those few videos still even up?
      🤘🏻🇬🇧

    • @ChocolateHabanero22
      @ChocolateHabanero22 8 днів тому

      Jak is still the best narrator. His voice has a sense of dread, yet exciting and exhilarating.

    • @kennykaniff
      @kennykaniff 8 днів тому

      My comment got removed lol. All I did was mention if the video was still up of him trying to sell the channel for an ungodly amount of money😂. Let's see if this one gets removed also🤔

  • @Kat21
    @Kat21 21 день тому +77

    wake up new disrupt video dropped

    • @astr43us
      @astr43us 21 день тому

      I’m here, I’m ready

    • @dertythegrower
      @dertythegrower 21 день тому +2

      lame trite overused joke for attention

    • @dertythegrower
      @dertythegrower 21 день тому

      super trite

    • @astr43us
      @astr43us 21 день тому +3

      @@dertythegrower wake up babe, old British word dropped again

    • @comradecameron3726
      @comradecameron3726 21 день тому

      No. I will slumber still dreaming.

  • @premnas651
    @premnas651 20 днів тому +2

    Each time I see a Disrupt video in my feed, I get excited, realize it's been awhile, and go back rewatch some of my favorites

  • @dan_loeb
    @dan_loeb 21 день тому +26

    1:16 what is going on with those fingers. is this ai generated?

    • @TheMechanicalHermit
      @TheMechanicalHermit 21 день тому +40

      Yeah, sadly. You can tell it's AI within 10 seconds of video with how shit it looks. Unconfident details and shapes melting in and out of existence in blurry, senseless motion. A far cry from the original aesthetic

    • @dan_loeb
      @dan_loeb 21 день тому +8

      @@TheMechanicalHermit came to the same conclusions shortly after posting that, I doubled back and sure enough, the entire moon sequence is AI, and the surface is just mush non stop.

    • @cookieartzz2902
      @cookieartzz2902 20 днів тому +10

      Yes, the moon part of this video is AI generated. Really disappointing

    • @ABC-vv4cm
      @ABC-vv4cm 19 днів тому +2

      AI art is good for productivity, product quality, and the consumer. Artists who can be replaced by it aren’t real artists anyways.

    • @dan_loeb
      @dan_loeb 19 днів тому +14

      @@ABC-vv4cm maybe when an image generator can give consistent quality and isn't trained on copyrighted data without consent. right now the results are bad and the legality is grey at best.

  • @Just_168
    @Just_168 20 днів тому +7

    2:15 is such an AMAZINGLY good evangelion reference, kudos to you

  • @tjlambaes
    @tjlambaes 19 днів тому

    I’m glad this channel is making content again. I still want to see part 2 of the guy that lost control of his malware.

  • @avfc1985
    @avfc1985 21 день тому +31

    I got lost as to why the astronauts and the phone hacking story are related?

    • @kyleyoung8179
      @kyleyoung8179 21 день тому +17

      They aren't. Disrupt likes to tell a few different stories at a time it's a little confusing

    • @Jordan_MSS
      @Jordan_MSS 20 днів тому

      @@kyleyoung8179yeah

    • @weekendsuperstar200
      @weekendsuperstar200 20 днів тому +22

      Provides a reference regarding the time and culture, and builds out the world we are hearing the story from. If I had to guess, “plot tools”

    • @julikaiba
      @julikaiba 2 дні тому +1

      they arent, thats how disrupt videos were originally, multiple unrelated stories told interspersed, I really like this style of storytelling, but I can see why its confusing

  • @jakegripss
    @jakegripss 21 день тому +1

    Voice was a little low in some areas but other than that, super glad yall are back!

  • @gamanzhiydanil
    @gamanzhiydanil 19 годин тому

    It's so cool that you took two seemingly unrelated stories, that were connected only by the strings of time and made it seem like they were intertwined!

  • @gallbladder54
    @gallbladder54 19 днів тому

    i love disrupt!!! thank you guys for continuing to make high quality video essays even after the whole big investment thing!!

  • @actualvampires
    @actualvampires 20 днів тому +14

    wow didn't expect AI in this, sucks to see

    • @julikaiba
      @julikaiba 2 дні тому

      I really dont understand why people care so much, seems like they have become a way smaller team, probably less money as well, I see it as a valid way to still produce great videos when not having as many people helping anymore

  • @jabbawockdeez2041
    @jabbawockdeez2041 17 днів тому

    Disrupt was one of my top 3 favorite channels when it was still seriously pumping out amazing content, the whole situation that went down sucked, but I’m am SO glad the vids are back.

  • @Tyzam16
    @Tyzam16 21 день тому +1

    Just found your content yesterday and trying to watch everything, creat content and superb editing!

    • @kennykaniff
      @kennykaniff 20 днів тому

      Tell me if the video of the old co founder trying to sell the channel and get people to invest for an ungodly inflated number is still up would you😂
      🤘🏻🇬🇧

  • @oskarristolang
    @oskarristolang 3 дні тому

    awesome video, as always!

  • @purpurls
    @purpurls 20 днів тому +54

    love the content, its a shame there is such heavy use of AI art- especially when you compare it to the previously human-made works which elevated the story telling, and showed a hell of a lot more love

    • @woodendoors7
      @woodendoors7 18 днів тому +15

      Yup... Disrupt made the most beautiful and snappy visuals, this vid is already mushy AI slop, and I'm just in the first 30 seconds.
      Edit: damn, at least the rest of the video was fine. The beginning completely killed the vibe.

    • @purpurls
      @purpurls 17 днів тому +5

      @@woodendoors7 yeah after the beginning its okay, but what a fucking let down :-((

    • @LiraArtist
      @LiraArtist 14 днів тому

      exactly, it's disappointing :(

    • @saadahmed688
      @saadahmed688 14 днів тому +3

      The art looks great. Why are artists always crying about AI stealing their jobs while saying AI art sucks? Doesn't make sense. Stop being so salty. AI can't draw what's in your head so human artists are still valuable.

    • @purpurls
      @purpurls 13 днів тому +1

      @@saadahmed688 mate are you dense? ai art is trained off of real people and is already taking away opportunities; use this video as an example- a real human being could have been employed and created work for this video, however that simply isn't the case and they've instead used AI work which is just worse.

  • @saintgermain6967
    @saintgermain6967 20 днів тому

    Another great vid guys, keep it up!

  • @0x7d69
    @0x7d69 20 днів тому +2

    Missed Opportunity to mention the 2600 Magazine in there! Love that magazine

  • @ekoden
    @ekoden 19 днів тому

    Man, their level of storytelling is simply unmatched. Please do more space content. Chronological exploration of the Apollo program would be absolutely unreal from you guys.

  • @lilswiftyyy
    @lilswiftyyy 20 днів тому

    Finally! I love these type of videos!

  • @Team_Fortress2
    @Team_Fortress2 21 день тому +61

    Honey wake up! DISRUPT posted.

  • @dylan.t180
    @dylan.t180 19 днів тому

    So excited to watch a new video from you guys

  • @onemoreguyonline7878
    @onemoreguyonline7878 20 днів тому +2

    I do enjoy how disrupts account of these events attempts to emulate "being there", but doesn't mention the mad cows

  • @MiningJack777
    @MiningJack777 20 днів тому

    Loving the S2FM animation! Great vid too!

  • @adg9042
    @adg9042 21 день тому +28

    who’s dis’ing their rupt right now?

  • @alexties6933
    @alexties6933 21 день тому +1

    good work jordan and team

  • @bobbyyum9705
    @bobbyyum9705 20 днів тому

    Insane what work you put in your vids

  • @mazgames9675
    @mazgames9675 18 днів тому +1

    quality of these videos is so insane

  • @Fuzzyplayzz986
    @Fuzzyplayzz986 16 днів тому

    Your computer virus videos are my favorites please make more I love them so much

  • @carperfjord8748
    @carperfjord8748 20 днів тому

    Great video. Enjoyed it!!

  • @paradoxicalegg6112
    @paradoxicalegg6112 19 днів тому +1

    A DISRUPT VIDEO ON PHREAKING I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT BUT LETSS GOOO

  • @ginger_lemon5159
    @ginger_lemon5159 19 днів тому +2

    What did the emergency broadcast have to do with this? Was it called in by a phreaker, or did i miss something?

  • @VIVEVIEV
    @VIVEVIEV 20 днів тому +5

    Disrupt posting not asking for money is like finding $100 on the ground

  • @Phantogram2
    @Phantogram2 20 днів тому

    The visuals... Usually for videos like these, I tend to go audio only, but I could not look away

  • @VasilescuDennis
    @VasilescuDennis 21 день тому +1

    Interesting videos as always.

  • @cullenroberts3466
    @cullenroberts3466 19 днів тому

    im happy its back to content like this, last videos havent been as interesting

  • @56independent42
    @56independent42 21 день тому

    Woah this is amazing and tells a story far better then even i, a writer, do; every included element means something

  • @San-li9ml
    @San-li9ml 21 день тому +2

    Imagine if instead of hacking it was freaking....

  • @PatrickOliveras
    @PatrickOliveras 20 днів тому

    This was solid gold

  • @fireon5816
    @fireon5816 21 день тому +15

    supposed to be sleeping already but welp...

  • @ohurspecial5404
    @ohurspecial5404 21 день тому +2

    This bouta disrupt my work schedule ima be real

  • @Persivefire
    @Persivefire 21 день тому +3

    the production quality is god-like as always, thank you for posting

  • @dannydd6554
    @dannydd6554 20 днів тому +10

    I'm pretty sure the intro is AI(If not im sorry) but seeing this from a channel that I used to be so fond of is quite upsetting, you are probably able to fund some sort of artist(again, sorry if not) and if not then use some other form of media.

    • @dannydd6554
      @dannydd6554 20 днів тому +1

      Looks like the rest is human-made, so now i just wonder why they couldnt do that for the intro. IMO the intro being AI-generated brings down the rest of the video quality

  • @stormkiller4148
    @stormkiller4148 20 днів тому +11

    The music is way too loud dude

  • @b1rdy0xf
    @b1rdy0xf 19 днів тому

    This felt like an opening to a high budget 2h long documentary about apple.

  • @KamaLyrics.
    @KamaLyrics. 21 день тому

    Disrupt posting is like waiting for that one movie to drop.

  • @coffeeandtrance
    @coffeeandtrance 19 днів тому

    these visuals are nuts

  • @mahmoudkhuffash6297
    @mahmoudkhuffash6297 21 день тому

    Where can i find the old “the deadliest computer virus” video?
    It was on the channel and got replaced with a less interesting video!

  • @Daddy_Fabianski
    @Daddy_Fabianski 21 день тому

    Man this is awesome

  • @SaltySauce420
    @SaltySauce420 21 день тому

    Thank you for this blessing

  • @aohd6762
    @aohd6762 19 днів тому

    The video is perfect and all, but I did notice that the background music is a bit loud compared to the narrator. It might be worth adjusting
    the volume so it's more balanced. Otherwise, great job on the video!

  • @zagnut48219
    @zagnut48219 20 днів тому

    "Apollo 15 scandal" Oh man, I have a Bulova Lunar Pilot with the dealer display stand. I need to get my hands on one of those David Scott postal covers!

  • @VoidSinister
    @VoidSinister 21 день тому

    I'm so glad they didn't collapse, best mini docs

  • @maple_treeway
    @maple_treeway 18 днів тому

    hes back, light the signals

  • @ClifBratcher
    @ClifBratcher 21 день тому +3

    "Back then, every computer had its own phone number." ... Ehhhh, most computers around that time were barely connected to the power grid, let alone the PSTN.

  • @theomillstorm7367
    @theomillstorm7367 21 день тому

    It’s always a good day to get Disrupt’d

  • @zagnut48219
    @zagnut48219 20 днів тому

    I've never heard about the Colorado EAS incident. I do remember the PBS Dr. Who / Maxx Headroom signal hijack, the "Wyoming Incident" and more recently the Dallas Tornado siren incident. The latter being done via DTMF tones from a cheap Chinese ham radio.

  • @Taikyondo
    @Taikyondo 21 день тому +1

    20 minutes ago is wild

  • @timmmychanga
    @timmmychanga 19 днів тому

    I love the audio ❤

  • @rasher45
    @rasher45 20 днів тому

    Disrupt is back.

  • @zenolord2242
    @zenolord2242 19 днів тому

    That ai art in the intro was insane, scary if anything.

  • @MoltenSnowball
    @MoltenSnowball 21 день тому

    Sweet sustenance, Disrupt has posted

  • @ThePuddingBoy
    @ThePuddingBoy 20 днів тому +1

    We are so back

  • @jeremiahlowe3268
    @jeremiahlowe3268 18 днів тому +2

    Step 1. Say fck the system. Start a revolution
    Step 2. Break the old system. It isn't fair anyways,
    Step 3. Become the system. Become the biggest, the baddest there ever was. Become unfair.
    Rinse. Repeat. This is humanity.

  • @HunterAllan
    @HunterAllan 19 днів тому

    wow that's phreakin cool

  • @m1ndfang3
    @m1ndfang3 11 днів тому

    babe wake up a new disrupt video just dropped

  • @lucioucz
    @lucioucz 20 днів тому

    i need me a space walk rn

  • @chadesval2824
    @chadesval2824 20 днів тому

    keep posting u goat

  • @Zeyek1
    @Zeyek1 21 день тому +1

    world class videos proud

  • @netro4680
    @netro4680 21 день тому

    would love a list of ost produced for this vid

  • @highapollo
    @highapollo 20 днів тому

    best apple add i've ever seen

  • @itssself
    @itssself 21 день тому +1

    New video let’s goo

  • @jetheron
    @jetheron 21 день тому

    Great content.

  • @underworldvault
    @underworldvault 21 день тому

    disrupt is back

  • @myth1462
    @myth1462 21 день тому

    Holy shit hes back

  • @zefsam2517
    @zefsam2517 18 днів тому +2

    Very interesting use of Ai for the animation. I’m a little disappointed because of the quality of work disrupts animators work and now basically replaced with ai. But still amazing video

  • @BlackWoullf
    @BlackWoullf 20 днів тому

    i think a lot more happened in between Job's and Woz's blue box and the creation of iphones lmao

  • @epeon-wisp
    @epeon-wisp 21 день тому

    It's time to drop everything and enjoy the disrupt *experience*.

  • @jdavis2921
    @jdavis2921 16 днів тому

    Fuck yes. More videos like this please.

  • @CraigStCyrPlus
    @CraigStCyrPlus 18 днів тому

    Its brutal they had to wear their spacesuits to the Nasa board meeting.

  • @angottionline
    @angottionline 20 днів тому

    BAE WAKE UP NEW DISRUP VIDEO JUST DROPPED

  • @Mevie_
    @Mevie_ 19 днів тому

    Love the vid but did they use ai to create the start of the vid?

  • @muscovado09
    @muscovado09 19 днів тому

    Aw hell yeah

  • @liliiii14
    @liliiii14 9 днів тому

    ur vids are so cool

  • @monado550
    @monado550 20 днів тому

    Fucking amazing as usual. The visuals are crisp.

  • @arcreehysteria9805
    @arcreehysteria9805 21 день тому

    I'm so nostalgic abt the old voice :( still an amazing video

  • @Zedorfska
    @Zedorfska 16 днів тому

    This is fucking awesome

  • @LongDeathBlueNeck
    @LongDeathBlueNeck 20 днів тому

    we're so fuckin back with this one, boys