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blue box

electronic device used to illegally place free long-distance telephone calls
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blue box

Summary

blue box ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (422 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • blue box's image is recorded as Blue Box at the Powerhouse Museum.jpg[2].
  • blue box's subclass of is recorded as phreaking box[3].
  • blue box's Commons category is recorded as Blue box[4].
  • blue box's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/017y0h[5].
  • blue box's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779686019[6].
  • blue box's ComputerLanguage.com definition is recorded as Blue+Box[7].

Why It Matters

blue box ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (422 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). blue box. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/blue-box-q586874
MLA “blue box.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/blue-box-q586874.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_blue-box-q586874_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{blue box}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/blue-box-q586874}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): blue box — https://4ort.xyz/entity/blue-box-q586874 (retrieved 2026-04-10)

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