Off The Hook - Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:00:00 EST

So anyone have anything interesting they'd like to catch up with? Some things involving the hacker world, technology? Come on, you live lives.

Tell us what's going on.

We do live lives.

There is actually one thing that we got an email about from a listener.

A listener has emailed us... letting us know that the first annual phone con is going to be held July 25th to 26th at the Computer Museum at System Source in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

And so that's this weekend coming up Saturday and Sunday.

It's the 150th anniversary of the invention of the telephone.

And our listener writes, it's long past due that an annual conference be held for telephone collectors, telecom and data professionals, hackers, phone freaks, and telephone enthusiasts of all kinds.

And you can get all your info about this at phonecon.org. That's P-H-O-N-E-C-O-N dot O-R-G.

So where is this happening? This is happening at the Computer Museum at System Source in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

And it looks like an interesting place on its own.

And yeah, the perfect place to be holding something like this.

Wow.

So it's the 150th anniversary of the phone.

And my math is not up to par.

Where does that put it? Back in the 1800s, obviously.

But when?

1876.

1876.

Okay, that sounds familiar.

That sounds familiar.

So why aren't things going on all throughout the world to herald this event, 150 years of the telephone?

That's an excellent question.

I mean, I think it's probably eclipsed by the 250th anniversary of, I guess, what can be considered the oldest constitutional democracy.

Yeah.