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In early 1971, a Vietnam War veteran named John Draper (later nicknamed Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman) discovered with his friend Joe Engressia that a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of the cereal could be easily modified to emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz, the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new call. This would effectively disconnect one end of the trunk, allowing the still-connected side to enter an operator mode. Experimenting with this whistle inspired Draper to build blue boxes, electronic devices capable of reproducing other tones used by the phone company. He was sentenced in October 1971 to five years’ probation for toll fraud.

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Atheist said:
i once made a beige box when i was in 7th grade

it allowed me to access the dial tone and phone line from the box outside my house

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"Beige box" is what you kids call a couple alligator clips these days?

Sounds like somebody wants to sound more leet than they are