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.
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
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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 :)
No, I wasn’t a drug dealer!
My mom said those were the only people who used them.
Either a doctor of the hospital or the streets. A tool for a more civilised time.
Doctors are professional drug dealers
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
I had one for nearly a decade up until three years ago when I got a job working from home.
Is this the idf shitposting?
Ah, the Motorola Express, a classic…
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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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.
I’m not that old.
I am.
Is this meshtastic?
I had that one and a blue translucent one.
My dad at one point needed to wear three pagers on his belt at all times.
Was your dad a stock broker?
He worked in IT. Pagers would beep when different systems ran into problems.
Just like that one. 1995.
