Ive never personally used or seen a pager in person but I’ve watched enough videos on old technology to know what a pager is. Also I have fond memories watching VHS tapes, using a CRT monitor, and I personally still use DVDs on my Thinkpad T440p.
I use dvds on my T60 (;
Nice, what DVDs do you have :3
I burn them mostly myself, but I got every star trek show on dvd
I have the original series :3
I hate pagers. I carried one everyday all day and night. My life was ruled by one 24/7/365 for over 20 years. First as a volunteer EMT and firefighter then as a full time medic. Just listening and waiting for those tones to drop.
I can still hear them.
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’ll have you know we’ve watched the 90s sitcoms
"You make me wanna throw my pager out the window "
pages never really caught on where i live but i used to watch American tv shows and be amazed how much they mentioned pagers.
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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Hey, I heard the iPager! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_B0riy__rw
Dude I was born in the early 90s and even I assumed “Pagers” was something I am not familiar with when I read the news. The name of a city? A guy? Some ethnic group? Some new military car? At some point I thought the news outlet just meant Prague (especially since I read it in German news first). I never would have guessed they literally meant pagers. Took me like 2 news report headlines and 4 mentions on lemmy to be like “oh wait what for real?!”
Not true, I heard they’re blowing up.
I think those are the “recent events” OP is referring to
Bold of you to assume the average person reads the news
maybe they don’t read articles, but news gets out way faster than it used to (including fake news). the avrg 12 yo probably didn’t read it, but saw it on instagram or something
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 had heared about Pager in “Stein Gate” anime.
I have a banana and a microwave at home, should I do it?
Why not?
El Psy Kongroo
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
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
