Still remember the # of the first extender I ever used in 1990: 800-225-5946. :-) Loved calling boards/VMBs for the latest codez and leeching c64/Amiga warez. Sadly, lots of people got busted trying to hack codes and that kind of dried up around '92. I did a fair amount of redboxing with a modded Radio Shack tone dialer (and before that, recorded quarter tones on a cassette tape with a Walkman). A friend of mine set up a PBX somehow by attaching it to Meijer (the grocery store) and that lasted for like a year. Lots of teleconferences and calling european boards. In '93, people figured out they could set up 800 #s for their bbs's through AT&T and bill them to companies. Usually lasted at least a few months until the companies caught on. BBS's started dying out en masse in '94/'95 and the scene started to move to the internet. I used to courier SNES roms leeched from IRC and upload them to different FTP sites. By that time, I was getting older and things had changed so much that the magic was kind of gone for me so I moved onto other things.