Did you have one?

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, I wasn’t a drug dealer!

  My mom said those were the only people who used them.

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  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Either a doctor of the hospital or the streets. A tool for a more civilised time.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doctors are professional drug dealers

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  By the time I knew about pagers, cell phones were also available and not prohibitively expensive (but not quite common, either). So i didn’t understand the point.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I carried one for years. IT support. Even years later, after no longer using the pager, if I hear a similar sound my heart starts racing faster. I was really Pavloved by that thing.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I used to use an iPhone with. Sonar ping ringtone when I was doing it support. It ruined the tv show Silicon valley for me because Richard Hendricks’ ringtone was the ping and it was giving me panic attacks to watch the show when I heard that characters phone ring

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• iamdisappoint@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ah, the Motorola Express, a classic…

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• griD@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  "
  The batteries I use are called Duracell
  They last for three weeks, so they do me well
  Don’t be going through no phases, my joint stays on
  If you’re in Costa Rica on a sunlit beach
  Your greed for the Phifer, I can be reached
  A number of importance, I just put it on the lock
  You leave code “69”, which means you want some-
  "

  I knew the importance of a Sky Pager :)

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is this meshtastic?

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• sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My dad at one point needed to wear three pagers on his belt at all times.

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Was your dad a stock broker?

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    • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He worked in IT. Pagers would beep when different systems ran into problems.

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• FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Anyone still use them?

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  • spacebread98@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hospitals still use them because they require less signal. Hospitals are difficult to get good signal due to normally due to how they are built. the multiple buildings built closely to each other and each of them having varying numbers of sub levels

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  • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I had one for nearly a decade up until three years ago when I got a job working from home.

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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I had that one and a blue translucent one.

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• knacht1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just like that one. 1995.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is this the idf shitposting?

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• Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I didn’t but my dad did. At one point he had both a cell phone and a pager and I remember being aware when he would get a new cell phone. I asked him once when he was getting another new phone and would he also be getting a new pager. He said that when he got a new phone it would probably have a pager built in to it! Mind blown! 1996 was wild, man

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• W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  17 31707 1

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• waggz@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i did. still remember the number too!

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh yeah…booty beeps.

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not that old.

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  • knacht1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am.

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