Yes, for being on call.
Back when mobile plans were expensive and coverage was terrible, pagers were fantastic. They’d get the message inside a concrete basement where a mobile had no chance of reception.
To get around the lack of acknowledgment on pagers, our plan had a “resend page 3 times every 15 minutes until acknowledged by return call, if not acknowledged ring these mobiles until answered” type setup. Worked very well for emergency after hours calls.
Now we have Pushover.
No, I wasn’t a drug dealer!
My mom said those were the only people who used them.
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.
Is this meshtastic?
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.
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
My dad at one point needed to wear three pagers on his belt at all times.
Anyone still use them?
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
Just like that one. 1995.
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
Is this the idf shitposting?
i did. still remember the number too!
I’m not that old.
I am.
Oh yeah…booty beeps.
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