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John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot and the free toy plastic Cap'n Crunch bo'sun whistle used to hack phone calls), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak.
Captain Crunch is a corn and oat breakfast cereal manufactured since 1963 [1] by Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo since 2001. Since the original product introduction, marketed simply as Cap'n Crunch, Quaker Oats has since introduced numerous flavors and seasonal variations, some for a limited time—and currently offers a Cap'n Crunch product line.
Suddenly, many more people wanted to get into the phone phreaking culture spawned by the blue box, and it furthered the fame of Captain Crunch. In June 1972, Ramparts magazine printed the wiring schematics necessary to create a mute box (a variant of the blue box). [ 17 ]
Maybe it’s parallel universes or time travel, maybe it’s just bad memory — either way, it’s fascinating.View Entire Post ›
John Michael Kolen (January 31, 1948 – April 3, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for eight seasons with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). [1]
Relative ranks in the Royal Navy, c. 1810. Warrant officers are underlined in the chart. [8] The Captain was a commissioned officer naval officer in command of a ship and was addressed by naval custom as "captain" while aboard in command, regardless of the officer's actual rank.
For 37 seasons and counting, MTV’s “The Challenge” — formerly known as “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” — has been one of the most consistent reality competition shows on all of TV.
The early Royal Navy also had only three clearly established shipboard ranks: captain, lieutenant, and master. This simplicity of rank had its origins in the Middle Ages, where a military company embarked on ship (led by a captain and a lieutenant) operated independently from the handling of the vessel, which was overseen by the ship's master.