carmendiva

lol i'll get there myself...eventually lol

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djdisturbed

Yeah same here..................

sag7392

Yeah, I remember going to grab a clear case for my "sky pager", lol. Instead of send me a text, it was send me a page, hahaha!

Stop blowing up my pager

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drksilenc

... all i remember is my old at&t brick phone... about the size of a police radio... that or my old car phone system

clickclack

I remember giving a girl a pager for her b-day with a year of pre-paid service...LOL, how cool was I?

She lost it like a week later and said that she never used it...I mean how awesome is the concept of a pager...someone pages you with their number and you go find a phone to call them back.

Anyhow, I was out like $150 EDIT: and pissed!

drexappeal

4311 435. 869312 7357
(For those that are too young, this is pager writing. Translation: "Hell Yes. Pager Text")

HAHAHAHA...wow, flashback.

drksilenc

... wow drex just wow... luckily i never had to use a pager

sag7392

I remember that! We are old!

chum1600

I must be too young for all of the pager talk. I remember my dad though at dinner would get a page and would have to call people back. It made my mom so mad that people couldn't leave him alone during dinner but I thought it was funny. Every time he got one it was like a little kid in a candy store "OMG who paged me?".

drexappeal

Hey, I'm happy and proud to be part of Generation X. We got to see the advancement of technology at the right age where we had to learn everything from the basics on up and we made due with the technology that was available to us.

Pager texting was a fad before they came out with pagers that you could actually receive visual messages with (unless, you wanted to pay for a phone call to check voicemail). Cell phone bills were NOTHING compared to what they are now. I remember (while in college) getting into DEEP crap because I used the cell phone in too many "emergency" situations that ended in a $500 bill. That was for going over the 50 minute maximum in a month (This is why you don't hear me whining/complaining about the $10 additional fee for unlimited 3G/4G).

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sag7392

I know! You've got me wanting to dig around and find my last pager...which I still have somewhere. Being part of Generation X, makes us able to appreciate how far we've come in the mobile world.

drexappeal

I think I still have my last pager. Clear case and as small as an eraser! Just wish cell phones were as cheap monthly as pagers got to be (I think I was paying $10 a month back in 98, before I finally got a cell phone with Sprint).

wjrandon

I'm taking the 4th off and making up hours over the weekend, knowing damn well I wont be productive because I'll be too busy playing with my Evo!

carmendiva

do they still make pagers?

drexappeal

That's a good question...LOL...I really don't know. Once two-ways came out, I think pagers got phased out. Not positive though. Only place I could see them still existing is in the hospital.

clambert1273

actually they do.. think hospital

carmendiva

I am sorry but i never understood the concept of pagers.
I mean yeah they were like cellphones minus the phone part

But if i got a page, i'd have to find a payphone(omg...i just saw my first pay phone today while i got off my plane here in California) to call the person back.

Sounds like a lot of work.

But i guess at the same time, this was very advanced back in the 90s

drexappeal

Hahaha...you're actually right on the money, but there were also many more pay phones available at that time. If it was an emergency, people would just put 911, so you'd know to pull off the road and find the first phone you could, to call the person back. There were also calling cards, so you wouldn't have to worry about not having change to use at the payphone.

And yeah, it was a lot of work compared to nowadays. And it wasn't so much "advanced," technologically, but an quicker form of communication.

carmendiva

i just googled some pagers...i found a cute one that was blue

but i didn't know you could put 911 in the the pager message.

Did pagers have phone numbers?
like an actual 10 digit number like landlines and cells?

lol i feel like im learning something new. I learned a crack pot the other day

oh god not a crackpot i mean a crockpot

lol oh dear

drexappeal

LOL...Yup. You'd just dial the pager number, you hear a personalized answering machine from the person you're paging, then it'll beep (just like an answering machine). You punch in your number or you leave a voice message.

In order to get spaces between numbers, just press *. # would be to end the page early.

carmendiva

Very intriguing.....

jeffdlb

You young whippersnappers had pagers?!? Heck, when I was a teen the cool new mobile communications technology was CB Radio! And the song "Convoy" by C.W. McCall was on the radio. Now get off my lawn!


[*] Actually, CB wasn't new, but just newly popular, much to the consternation of the professional truckers.

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chasers

wow beepers were real big when i was middle school/freshman year in high school. which means we're about the same age and i aint old drex lol

SoFLO

I vaguely remember my mom having a pager but that's about it lol.

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drexappeal

Hahaha...I relied on my pager all the way up until graduating college. Cell phones, although they were getting cheaper, didn't become really affordable until after I was done with college. Even when I got my first Sprint phone (on my own, not under my parents' plan), it was still limited to 500 minutes for the plan I got (Sprint didn't even have free nights/weekends yet).

OfTheDamned

I had one of those. It was really cool at first, but then I always had some idiot leave me a message that just said, "Hey, give me a call." Then I would actually have to call and check the voicmail to see who it was. I could never get people to understand that it didn't tell me who it was.

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drexappeal

Woah, I'm totally having flashbacks with that! I remember one my cousin's being the first one (of the peeps I know) to get that and he'd get so pissed when we'd do the same thing!...hahahaha

IOWA

whats a pager?










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carmendiva

Question did they move this thread or something?
Because i don't remember starting a thread about this haha

SoFLO

It looks like drex or another person started the thread but for some reason their posts disappeared

IOWA

Well that's very odd.

carmendiva

ha the reason i asked because it actually had my name under the thread title

i was like...i dont remember creating this.

thought someone might have hacked my profile or something lol

but its all good

Az Scooter

I am feeling so old. I did not get a pager until I was over thirty. I have had a cell phone for 17 years. The pager was great for it's day. It was a pain though, because I would be out working 5 miles from any type of phone, get a 911 text from my wife, only to find out that it was not that important after all. I used to carry 2 pagers, one for work and one for my side business. Finally, my work gave me permission to use their pager for personal business. It was nuts compared to now.

NYCHitman1

I had a see-through blue Motorola pager when I was in elementary/middle school lol.

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drexappeal

I had a clear one, but same exact style!...hahaha...Nice!

330D

+1, I had the clear one also. I was sooo cool.

Demache

I actually remember those, even though I was only a kid when they were really in use.

This was our family's first cell phone. I think we got it way back in 1997. It was an old AMPS phone. Too bad I have no clue where the charger is, I'd like to mess around with it.


Nokia 918+.

drexappeal

Hahaha...I remember that phone. And that Nokia was supposed to be more "streamlined" than the Motorola clamshell we had:


What's funny is, I think we even got an extended battery for this that made it crazy big!...LOL.

Demache

Also, I'm wondering what this hole is for on the back of the phone. It looks like it might be some sort of noise cancellation mic to listen for ambient noise or something.

drexappeal

The two holes on the top right are to string through the wrist holder. I remember getting one of those for my first couple Sprint phones.

Demache

Ah, that would make sense. There was another hole further in, but I suppose it was just the way the plastic was molded.

And damn, I've been looking for the charger and I still can't find it. I wonder if a charger from an early 2000 Nokia would fit.

EDIT: Damn, too big by a margin. And one from a Nokia E63 is too small. Damn Nokia and their inability to stick with one kind of charging jack size!

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Fenga Papit

In keeping with the pager/beeper theme......

YouTube - Funny Date Commercial

carmendiva

oh that is soo cute lol

vandyblackandgold

I am 29. I remember pagers, just never had one. but I had this moment the other that just made me go, "WOW! Seriously!?"

I was replacing a customers computer. The previous computer was approx 4-5 years old and was running pretty slow so my company gave them new one. while tearing down the old machine i noticed the mouseball was a trackball mouse to which I actually proclaimed, "wow. havent seen one of these in a while..."

i had to step back for a second and ask myself if i really just said that. seriously, a trackball mouse!? its not like trackball mice are 50 years or something.

IOWA

Lol I do the same thing... actually I had the same reaction when my grandma asked me to help her find a vhs... lol....

Oh, I'm 25 and I had a pager/cellphone combo. This was before texting was the thing to do.

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

drexappeal

ROFLMAO! I totally remember that commercial. Funny thing is, Smart Beep SUCKED!...LOL. I remember that all it offered was the ability to page a number (basic coverage), so very limited compared to other companies that were a little more expensive per month, but a lot more options. AND you couldn't do pager writing (multiple texts on one phone call).

I remember, I got so efficient at making multiple pages to 1 pager.

Eugene

I had to carry a pager for my first real job, was on call once a month. We put in E-911 systems and CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch). So Id get paged in the middle of the night and have to tell a dispatcher how to turn the dumb terminal off and on.

Anyone remember every time a pager went off half the people in the resturaunt would reach for theirs since they all sounded the same.

safeplayer22

Okay so I'm going to be 32 soon. So this definitely brings back some memories.
1. I had the Nokia 5110 (or something like that) back in 1998 or so. Anyway, it never had vibrate until they came out with this new battery where it will vibrate when you receive a call. That was the coolest thing ever at the time. I also remember that the phone weighs like 5 lbs (or at least it felt that way). So it's the battery that actually vibrates and not the phone (cost about $30 back then, so it was pretty expensive).

2. Even before that phone, I had the clear pager show above. I remember one of my classmate in speech class had to do a "show and tell" speech and he did one on how to send text messages to pagers. Now keep in mind that at the time, these pagers do not have actual text (letters) but only numbers. So he showed us a few like "I miss you" --> "1 177155 4", and some others. Anyway everyone in the class was so fascinating with the topic, they kept asking many questions. Even the teachers like, "wow this is so interesting! the technology is great!" LOL
3. The closest thing we have to a bluetooth headset was this:

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sontaikle

I'm 22 so I never had a pager, but I certainly remember them! My father used to have one and I used to think they were so cool (people could get in touch with you! While you were out!).

My parents also got their first cell phones around the time I was 11. I remember how huge they were! I think we still have one of them lying around and unfortunately I can't remember what brand they were.

Remember dial-up? I think that was the centerpoint of my childhood. We had the 'net when I was 10 and I used to always get pissed when someone would call and knock me off