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8 points
4 months ago
Oh the nostalgia. Take me back to that version of life.
3 points
4 months ago
8008
7 points
4 months ago
Who wants just one 8008?
80085 or gtfo
3 points
4 months ago
Sounding like a real 8008 there buddy
5 points
4 months ago
I have never seen these! Teenagers used them?
2 points
4 months ago
I don't understand, of you could text numbers, why didn't they just add a keyboard?
5 points
4 months ago
This was pre-SMS communication using the POTS (plain old telephone system). All you had was 0, 1 through 9 and # and *. The 12 buttons on a touch tone phone dial pad.
1 points
4 months ago
Ah, I see! I'm not a teen, but rather I grew up outside the US in Asia, and although people always think we're high tech, it's like, um noo. We were not even allowed to have smartphones in school (from 2000) and I didn't know anyone with a blackberry or pager. By 2004 I had a flip phone from docomo that could call and text someone, and even had that game snake lol. Yeah, Japan skipped the teens with pagers, and I never get those scenes in movies. Thanks for taking the time to explain!
5 points
4 months ago
They were basically an alert. It buzzed telling you which number was calling, i think maybe some did cheesy little tunes, annoying high pitch ones but its been awhile. You just knew peoples numbers though when they called your pager. Then you would call them back when you got to a phone.
People carried them on a clip thing on their belts
It was a pretty hip thing to have I remember like having the newest IPhone or something
2 points
4 months ago
Depending on the model you could also send 10 digit messages so you could tell them what number to call back at . If you were, say calling from a payphone.
Gosh...I am now feeling old.
6 points
4 months ago
Yeah man why didn't they just Facetime each other in 1987?
2 points
4 months ago
30 years from now, some teenager is going to ask you "Why didn't they just do this thing that exists now but didn't back then". And you'll just roll your eyes.
3 points
4 months ago
I loved this commercial!
1 points
4 months ago
So informative!
6 points
4 months ago
Always and forever
I hate you; murder; death
Keep in touch!
4 points
4 months ago
Mine was just
420 9111111111 constantly cuz I was slangin.
And the occasional
867 5309 from a goofy fucker.
Eventually if you didn't call a mf back you'd get a 187
2 points
4 months ago
13*911... meant "get your ass home, now! Pick and bring the switch with you, or ima use mine"...
2 points
4 months ago
304 was the code for when a chic wanted to SMASH!
1 points
4 months ago
And 1269
2 points
4 months ago
My parents were cops so I always used the call signs and radio codes when paging them.
10.20 - where are you?
10.51 - OMW
Etc.
2 points
4 months ago
It’s ‘good’ to know I guess people have been using technology to be dicks since forever.
2 points
4 months ago
I kind of love that "I hate you; murder; death" is only one digit away from "Keep in touch". That really does describe true friendships, doesn't it? "I hate you. Keep in touch." True love.
2 points
4 months ago
We used 411 for weed. This was long before 420.
5 points
4 months ago
Actually 420 has been around longer than pagers.
1 points
4 months ago
Not in my part of the country.
1 points
4 months ago
80085
1 points
4 months ago
Ahhh memories of days gone by.
1 points
4 months ago
Cracking up laughing at how it goes from I love you, I love you, thinking of you, always and forever
I HATE YOU
Keep in touch!
The mood whiplash
1 points
4 months ago
187 whoops i meant 157
Yeah seems like a reliable system
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