TAP (magazine)

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TAP - The Youth International Party Line ( YIPL ) is an American underground magazine that has been providing readers with information on phreaking , hacking , dial-up communications , mailboxes , technical modifications to telephone systems and other sometimes illegal topics since June 1971 .

The TAP is probably the oldest hacker newspaper and was published until 1984. It was the model for a whole range of other hacking magazines such as the Phrack , the magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly and the German-language data thrower .

Other hacking magazines

• 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
• Phrack
• Bavarian Hacker Post (1984 to 1987)
• The data thrower
• Hack-Tic
• hakin9

See also

• Youth International Party

Individual evidence

1. ↑ " Old School: Andreas Bogk ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Interview by Philip Banse, Spiegel TV / dctp , 2012 (from 6:53) 

Web links

• Archives of the TAP, an American hacker and phreak newspaper (founded in 1971)
• Encyclopedia: Timeline of hacker history
• Modern Yipl spin-off: a flat rate-compatible conference call for 1,200 telephone freaks at the same time
• From 1968 to 1984. The history of TAP.