I think I hit the tail end of phreaking, most of the exposure I had was through text files downloaded from BBS/FTP sites that relayed the knowledge of building "boxes" with such colorful names as "blue", "brown", "rainbow", and "piss". The phreaking I knew moved from land lines (of which I only participated in 'beige-ing' from a neighbor's line, and I won a lineman's handset [thanks #303/cuervocon] ), to cell phone cloning, bridges, and the occasional digital switch. Less analog hardware, more software/digital systems. Nostalgic!