Pagers are still widely used in the medical field, especially, for surgeons.
Wearing one right now. It’s my cue to go drive people to the hospital.
Also volunteer fire departments are big users.
Gen z here. I was not around in the 80’s or 90’s, but everything people describe as being from the 90’s and some stuff from the 80’s was just my life in the mid 2000’s. I definitely know what pagers are. Like hell, we had a stack of floppy discs at home and my first computer had a floppy disc reader. I used to play duck hunt on my dad’s nes and super Mario Land on my own Gameboy. That stuff doesn’t just disappear at the turn of the decade.
floppy disc reader
Yeah yeah you know what i mean
ok mr fancypants how about I call it a flopper? How bout that
Everyone knows they are called flippy flops. Gosh
2007 here, never used a pager. Honestly thought it was one of those clippy step counters at first.
I do however have a Gameboy and a stack of floppies.
also gen z here, I also got a gameboy
Even as a younger millennial they were barely in my life. My mom had one when I was in elementary school for work, and other than that I just know beepers from medical shows and Dennis, the beeper king, from 30 Rock. Technology is cyclical.
I thought he was the Ratking?
Not true, I heard they’re blowing up.
nope, I heard about it before in:
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school
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steins:gate
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and from richard stallman himself
+ I kinda knew what they were from idk where
but regarding gen alpha, you’re probably right
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Born just on the cusp of Gen z, so I’m debatably a zoomer. But weren’t pagers a big thing in hospitals for a long time? I certainly saw them while watching scrubs as a kid.
Still are.
I doubt it, even if they’ve never seen one in real life, they talk about it a lot in all medical dramas.
Brings me back to my HS hell in the 90s. That’s when they banned pagers lol. They also outlawed underaged smoking in my state and you never heard so much bitching lol
I wondered about this as a tactic. Like doesn’t a pager really limit the age group / demographic you can target?
pagers never really caught on where i live but i used to watch American tv shows and be amazed how much they mentioned pagers.
“Man, this bitch be blowing up my beeper!” Has a whole new meaning now. Doesn’t it?
so hot right now
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Hey, I heard the iPager! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_B0riy__rw
