Does Anyone Ever See Anyone Using "Pagers" Anymore?
 

LOL! I haven't seen one of those in AGES!

For all you young punks this is a pager... It's old skool!

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DH

old school .... i wish i had one but never have :(

But yeah i seen alot of people with them

classic.. I so remember . I had the operator ask for a password to let someone message me LOL

One of my best friends still carries one around. We all taunt him about it every chance we get.

My sister still uses one but she's a nurse.

I had one when I was 16, it was the coolest! Only doctors and drug dealers had them back in those days ;)

DH

P.S. I wasn't a drug dealer LOL!

pagers rock, ppl can page you... and you dont have to call them back ;)

so you were a doctor?? or that's just what you told the ladies :winkwink:

I was talking with this guy whos a tech for sprint just last Wend, and is on call... so they have them on a pager... He said it was due to the fact that the company tried to give out cells to to all the on call techs but, the cells don't have service everywhere so they never showed up to calls... THEY have to buy the pagers from a competitor... LOL!

Doctors and hospital staff still use them quite a bit.

I made a lot of money off them suckers...over 300k...

yeah I had one when I was 15 I think.. it was free because everytime I called to get my msgs (usually from my mom haha) they would spam you with 45seconds of ads.. good concept IMO..

I still have mine, using it as an alarm clock :thumbsup

nope, i havent seen a pager in like 30 years

Coming from a guy nicknamed KrissKross!! Jump, Jump!!!

I used to have one back in the 70's it was 4 times the size of the current ones.This is pre cellphone days, the car mobile phone had one channel in town, so if someone was making a call you had to wait till they were finished:1orglaugh

they use them in the local hospital.

Visit Costco and you'll see plenty of people with them.

:1orglaugh that's what I was going to say...

A couple of my friends had them, I used to always page them with numbers like 69 or 31337...

back in the day most guys in my school had one. I remember I paged my friend when I was ready to go out to do some graffiti because it was to late to call him on the phone :)

I still have one from when i was younger, lol, very funny, i might re connect it.:1orglaugh

back in the days some ppl carried them around at school, but noone ever paged them as it was too expensive :D
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I think the last time i saw a pager was about 9 years ago lol

anyone who works for intel carrys them still

Somewhere I have a case of pagers brand new in the boxes that were discontinued and scrapped. I mistook the box in my trunk for something I needed instead of something destined for the dumpster one night after work.

Hehe... I still do that to my friend. Actually, what I'll do most often is page him but with another friend's number. Annoys the fuck out of him.

And my nickname is short for my real name. My friends have been calling me this since the early 90s, so it kinda stuck.

Agreed. Cellphones are banned in some areas of hospitals because the signals interferes with telemetry and other remote patient monitoring hardware.

On call MD's still carry pagers.

Medical professionals still carry them.

i dont like electronics anymore....GPS in every phone can track your movement

makes being shady more difficult

what the fuck is that ?

I had one of those from 2000-2003, it had an email address and I setup a monitoring system for the 80 server network I used to help manage at my old dotcom...

From what I hear they've all upgraded to Blackberrys now.

ah yeah, I completely forgot there was a substitute fad out already :error

You're ight about that!!
I think people who have pagers right now are people who are 24hrs on call.

Thats why I loved mine, if I didn't want to talk to you, I didn't have to call you back and when they would ask if I got their page I would be like "What page?"

I liked my mine because it was cheap and people could never confirm whether or not I got the page, and because it was easy to shut it up if it started making noise at the wrong time... just smack your pocket.

No. I think they are history

I use to have one back in HS, it's long gone now though

Heh, my old boss did up until about a year ago then he started to just have the text messages sent to the cell phone when something was wrong with the routers/servers.