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.
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
nope, I heard about it before in:
school
steins:gate
and from richard stallman himself
+ I kinda knew what they were from idk where
but regarding gen alpha, you're probably right
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.
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
Not true, I heard they're blowing up.
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.
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?!"
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
I don’t know, as a millennial I always heard people that I don’t know cassette tapes or vinyls or slide projectors when I was a kid. I was in fact familiar with all of those since this old stuff doesn’t just disappear and was still used around me in some capacity.
I always heard people that I don’t know cassette tapes or vinyls or slide projectors when I was a kid.
Cassettes?
Sorry... Cassettes!?
There's someone out there who is attempting to insult millennials by saying we're too young for cassettes?
What the heck else would we be listening to music on, Brenda? We didn't have discmans, sure they existed but we had kid money, and it wasn't worth it until anti-skip came along in 1997, by which point at 10-15 we already had a cassette collection... so we had walkmans!
2 billion blank cassettes were sold in 1997, 2 billion the year before... those born in 1996 didn't get born into a world where the 2 billion cassettes sold that year magically disappeared before the kid was old enough to form memories.
Cassettes were the best, though CD-R changed the game for custom mix "tapes", I never went back to actual mix tapes after we got the tech to burn cds. Mix tapes were still going around all year levels in my first year of highschool, but it was mostly mix CDs going around when I graduated, and the rich kids were already just swapping usbs. By uni, we'd send each other mediafire links to a zip file full of mp3s.
I can still kind of imagine the sensation of sticking my pinkie finger in a cassettes to rewind when I couldn't find a pen. Though weirdly, I can't remember how I used to rewind VHS's, I can't picture that feeling. I'm guessing I probably used the rewind feature for video more often, and was find hand rewinding my music.
I think the older generations are forgetting how the passage of time works. Also, just how many of us millennials grew up poor with Gen X hand me downs 😂
I see your slide projector and raise you an overhead projector.
Hell, I'm a millennial and I had a professor at college maybe five years ago who used an overhead because he refused to figure out how to use PowerPoint with the computer projector.
I see your overhead projector and raise you a zip drive and a mini disc. I blow my NES cartridge to bid adieu to you.
I had heared about Pager in "Stein Gate" anime.
El Psy Kongroo
I have a banana and a microwave at home, should I do it?
Why not?
Gen Z is a lot older than you think, early gen Z were around when fax machines were still common. Gen alpha maybe though.
You're not gonna believe this but early gen alpha were around when fax machines were still common.
Fax machines are still in big use. Source, am an attorney without a fax machine and it's a major pain in the ass because all older attorneys use them.
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.
Alpha, maybe, but zoomers definitely not.
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
I doubt it, even if they've never seen one in real life, they talk about it a lot in all medical dramas.
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