Rogers' Neighborhood Archives and listened to several hundred episodes over a span of six weeks. An active amateur radio operator with the call sign WB0RPA, he held an amateur extra class license, the highest grade issued. As shown in the Federal Communications Commission database, he also earned both a General radiotelephone operator license and a commercial radiotelegraph operator's license, as well as a ship radar endorsement on these certificates. He was one of the few to qualify for the now-obsolete aircraft radiotelegraph endorsement on the latter license. Presence in the media In 1971, just after his arrest, Engressia was featured in an Esquire article by Ron Rosenbaum (Secrets of the Little Blue Box) which exposed the phone phreak scene to a general public and led to further media coverage of Engressia, who became a cultural icon. The 1992 movie Sneakers had a character called "Whistler", who seemed to combine traits of both Joybubbles and John Draper. The character is played by David Strathairn. The 2001 documentary film The Secret History of Hacking features archive footage of Joybubbles. In Steve Wozniak's book iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, the Apple co-founder mentions Joybubbles as an early inspiration during his college years. On February 21, 2012, WNYC's Radiolab aired a segment on Joybubbles in an episode titled "Escape!" Chapter 9 of the book Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley details his successful plan to get a job by purposely getting arrested for phreaking. Phonefreaking and specifically Joybubbles were the subject of "A Call from Joybubbles", broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on March 13, 2017 and March 17, 2018. Phone services Joybubbles ran a weekly telephone story line called "Stories and Stuff", which was usually updated on the weekend. In the early 1980s, he ran a phone line called the "Zzzzyzzerrific Funline", which had the distinction of being the very last entry in the phone book. During the Zzzzyzzerrific Funline days, calling himself Highrise Joe, he would go on various rants about how much he loved Valleyfair amusement park and would also regularly play and discuss Up with People. References External links New York Times Obituary New York Times Magazine memorial profile Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profile (2003) Find "Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell" in a library 11-20-91 Off the Hook