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mimavox@piefed.social 2 days agoGenX here. Yeah I remember beepers being all the rage in a brief window of time, just before cell phones took off. They wer called “Minicall” here in Sweden.
Comment on Post title lol
mimavox@piefed.social 2 days agoGenX here. Yeah I remember beepers being all the rage in a brief window of time, just before cell phones took off. They wer called “Minicall” here in Sweden.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Huh! It never occurred to me that there would be other funny nicknames for them in other languages, but… duh, obviously, of course there would be.
Neat!
mimavox@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yeah. It could be that it was an actual brand name, but everyone called them that in any case.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Sorta like how ~1/3 of Americans refer to any kind of soda / pop as ‘Coke’.