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Joybubbles - Josef Engressia, Jr.
Joybubbles, a phone phreak icon of the 1950s and 60s, died on 8 August 2007, aged 58.
Born Josef Carl Engressia, Joybubbles was his legally adopted name, reflecting his beliefs that resulted in setting up the Church of Eternal Childhood.
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In adulthood, Josef chose to revert to childhood as a way of coping with memories of sexual abuse. He set up the Church of Eternal Childhood and became an ordained minister.
He also set up the organisation "We Won't Grow Up", a non-profit support group for people rediscovering childhood, and ran a weekly telephone story line called "Stories and Stuff."
In 1991, Josef legally changed his name to Joybubbles.
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More about Joybubbles at Wikipedia
Joybubbles (May 25, 1949 - August 8, 2007), born Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. in Richmond, Virginia, USA, was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four. Being gifted with perfect pitch, he was able to whistle 2600 hertz into a telephone (see Blue box). Joybubbles said that he had an IQ of "172 or som...
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Joybubbles
A short clip about the late Joybubbles, formerly Joe Engressia.
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Articles about Joybubbles
- Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies
- New York Times article about Joybubbles' death.
- A Conversation with Joybubbles
- Article by John Fail and Chris Strunk
- Secrets of the Little Blue Box
- Esquire Magazine article by Ron Rosenbaum.
Audio links
- Stories and Stuff - Joybubbles
- A list of downloadable MP3 files of the Stories and Stuff recordings that Joybubbles made.
- An interview with Joybubbles
- MP3 link to a recorded interview with Joybubbles by Off The Hook.
- An interview with Joybubbles
- MP3 link to recorded interview with Joybubbles by Haxor Radio.
- An interview with Ron Rosenbaum
- Ron Rosenbaum talks with Robert Siegel for NPR about his meeting with Joybubbles when he wrote the Esquire article on him in 1971.
