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10mo ago

A cool guide from the 90s

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Good old pagers. I absolutely don't miss mine, but they were a welcome relief to get the odd message when you were working in dangerous or "clean" environments where phones (or any other electronic or transmitting device) were prohibited.
I think my last one fell out of my belt and into a toilet mid-piss, so that was that.
- I associate it with on-call rotation. We definitely didn't have money for them when I was in high school. I think one rich kid had one.
  
  Yea little confused with this no kids had them, they where not cheap.

Showing my age here but...is this real?
- I just had a pager to try and fit in there was zero practical use for it.
  in my experience, what was 1000% more likely was you gave each of your contacts a code like 111111111 meant call home and 2222222 would be your pal jason, if they added 911 it did mean urgent.
  This is also what the few other nerds i knew who had pagers did.
  Half the time they would leave the # where they were at because they might not be home.
  So if you got 2 pages in a row 7777777911 4155551212
  that would mean contact John at the given number and hurry it's an emergency. There were payphones at school and the mall so it was easy to get in touch.
  
  There were payphones at school and the mall so it was easy to get in touch.
  I'm old enough to recognize this is not irony.

My wife and I still text 143 for short.
- 🥹 Do it as often as you can. ❤️
- Mr Rogers weighed himself every day to make sure he stayed 143 lbs.

lol "i hate you murder death" out of nowhere

Was 80085 ever used as a code?
- I went to a site recently where the padlock code was 58008.
- 55378008

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/223/491/bbf.jpg
- XIF
  
  The art of trolling.com
- LKAB
  
  LKAC (or LKAP)

333 this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)
Huh, that makes sense
- Wait until you learn about time and temperature.
  
  I use 555-1212 as a phone number when I have to sign up for an account and that's a required field.
  
  You’re gonna have to tell us.

Anyone remember those jungle paging shacks all over the place? Decked out in white/black zebra stripes
The local one had a jungle paging hummer H1 in full zebra stripes they would park out front... wonder if it's sitting somewhere with that same goofy paint job
- What In the world is a jungle paging shack?
  
  These little tiny stores that sold pagers. They were small almost popup style buildings usually.

I remember this from highschool. I always thought it was stupid; a pager (2 when on call) was something my dad used for work & emergencies. It was hardly what I'd have ever called cool.

187
- On a muthafuckin cop?
- Murder death kill.

:3 :3 :3

Now it makes sense. Back in the day there was a republican proposition in California that was to get rid of migrants. Prop 187!

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