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{{Infobox person
| name        = Johann North
| image       = Evan_Doorbell.jpg
| caption     = Photograph of Evan Doorbell
| birth_name  = Evan Moore
| birth_date  = c. 1957
| death_date  =
| birth_place =
| other_names = {{plainlist|
* Johann North
* Evan Doorbell
}}
| occupation  = Former phone phreak, former DJ
| website     = {{plainlist|
* [http://www.evan-doorbell.com/ www.evan-doorbell.com]
* [https://twitter.com/evandoorbell Twitter]
}}
| footnotes   = 
}}

'''Johann North''' (born '''Evan Moore'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/Early80s03-George.flac |title=Early 80s Phreaking pgm. 3: George, The Interactive Answering Machine, 00:00 |last=Doorbell |first=Evan}}</ref> c. 1957), commonly known as '''Evan Doorbell''', is a former American phone phreak and DJ. He is widely known for having recorded many hundreds of hours of [[List of Evan Doorbell recordings|telephone recordings]] in the 1970s and 1980s that he has continued to narrate and publish through the present day.

== Early life ==
Evan grew up in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malverne,_New_York Malverne, New York]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/HowBPhreak04.flac |title=How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 4, 28:05 |last=Doorbell |first=Evan}}</ref>, served by the Number 5 Crossbar 593 (LYnbrook3)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/HowBPhreak05.flac |title=How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 5, 28:00 |last=Doorbell |first=Evan}}</ref> and later additionally Number 1 Crossbar 599 (LYnbrook9) telephone exchanges<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/HowBPhreak04.flac |title=How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 4, 17:30 |last=Doorbell |first=Evan}}</ref>. As a teenager in the late 1960s, he became interested in telephones when he became curious about variances in recorded telephone intercept messages<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/HowBPhreak01.flac |title=How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 1 |last=Doorbell |first=Evan}}</ref>. Evan, along with other phreaks such as Ben Decibel, went on to spend his teens and twenties recording hundreds of hours of telephone calls placed on various electromechanical and electronic switching equipment, with much of the recording being done on reel-to-reel tapes. A large number of his tapes are freely published on his website<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/ |title=Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes}}</ref>.

The moniker "Evan Doorbell" came into use as Evan came up with a pseudonym for use on the conference "party lines" that he and many other teenagers used frequently at the time. Evan first chose "The Doorbell" (a play on "The Bell", a nickname Evan heard used on a party line on one occasion), using his home doorbell as a sound effect in a musical ID loop he recorded for himself. Eventually, this led to the "Evan Doorbell" name he used in phreaking circles<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/HowBPhreak10.flac |title=How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, part 10, 1:45 |last=Doorbell |first=Evan}}</ref>.

== Career and Later Years ==

Evan lost much of his interest in the telephone network by the mid 1980s, due to the rapid replacement of electromechanical switching equipment with electronic switches such as the 1AESS. While he did make some recordings afterwards, the vast majority of his recording library dates from the 1970s and the early 1980s.

Evan worked at an answering service in his early twenties and as a DJ from 1978 until 1991<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/evandoorbell |title=Twitter}}</ref>.

In his adult years, Evan changed his name to Johann North.

North continues to narrate and publish his telephone tapes, as well as answer questions about his tapes and the "old network" more generally. He also recorded the audiobook version of Phil Lapsley's book [http://explodingthephone.com/ Exploding The Phone].

==See also==
* ''[[List of Evan Doorbell recordings]]''

== References ==
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