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Remembering old technology (Pagers, brick phones, etc)

chasers said:
wow beepers were real big when i was middle school/freshman year in high school. which means we're about the same age and i aint old drex lol
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Hahaha...I relied on my pager all the way up until graduating college. Cell phones, although they were getting cheaper, didn't become really affordable until after I was done with college. Even when I got my first Sprint phone (on my own, not under my parents' plan), it was still limited to 500 minutes for the plan I got (Sprint didn't even have free nights/weekends yet).
 
drexappeal said:
Pager texting was a fad before they came out with pagers that you could actually receive visual messages with (unless, you wanted to pay for a phone call to check voicemail).
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I had one of those. It was really cool at first, but then I always had some idiot leave me a message that just said, "Hey, give me a call." Then I would actually have to call and check the voicmail to see who it was. I could never get people to understand that it didn't tell me who it was.
 
OfTheDamned said:
I had one of those. It was really cool at first, but then I always had some idiot leave me a message that just said, "Hey, give me a call." Then I would actually have to call and check the voicmail to see who it was. I could never get people to understand that it didn't tell me who it was.
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Woah, I'm totally having flashbacks with that! I remember one my cousin's being the first one (of the peeps I know) to get that and he'd get so pissed when we'd do the same thing!...hahahaha
 
carmendiva said:
Question did they move this thread or something?
Because i don't remember starting a thread about this haha
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It looks like drex or another person started the thread but for some reason their posts disappeared :confused:
 
ha the reason i asked because it actually had my name under the thread title

i was like...i dont remember creating this.

thought someone might have hacked my profile or something lol

but its all good
 
I am feeling so old. I did not get a pager until I was over thirty. I have had a cell phone for 17 years. The pager was great for it's day. It was a pain though, because I would be out working 5 miles from any type of phone, get a 911 text from my wife, only to find out that it was not that important after all. I used to carry 2 pagers, one for work and one for my side business. Finally, my work gave me permission to use their pager for personal business. It was nuts compared to now.
 
I had a see-through blue Motorola pager when I was in elementary/middle school lol.

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NYCHitman1 said:
I had a see-through blue Motorola pager when I was in elementary/middle school lol.

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I actually remember those, even though I was only a kid when they were really in use.

This was our family's first cell phone. I think we got it way back in 1997. It was an old AMPS phone. Too bad I have no clue where the charger is, I'd like to mess around with it.

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Nokia 918+.
 
Demache said:
I actually remember those, even though I was only a kid when they were really in use.

This was our family's first cell phone. I think we got it way back in 1997. It was an old AMPS phone. Too bad I have no clue where the charger is, I'd like to mess around with it.

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Nokia 918+.
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Hahaha...I remember that phone. And that Nokia was supposed to be more "streamlined" than the Motorola clamshell we had:
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What's funny is, I think we even got an extended battery for this that made it crazy big!...LOL.
 
Also, I'm wondering what this hole is for on the back of the phone. It looks like it might be some sort of noise cancellation mic to listen for ambient noise or something.

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Demache said:
Also, I'm wondering what this hole is for on the back of the phone. It looks like it might be some sort of noise cancellation mic to listen for ambient noise or something.

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The two holes on the top right are to string through the wrist holder. I remember getting one of those for my first couple Sprint phones.
 
drexappeal said:
The two holes on the top right are to string through the wrist holder. I remember getting one of those for my first couple Sprint phones.
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Ah, that would make sense. There was another hole further in, but I suppose it was just the way the plastic was molded.

And damn, I've been looking for the charger and I still can't find it. I wonder if a charger from an early 2000 Nokia would fit.

EDIT: Damn, too big by a margin. And one from a Nokia E63 is too small. Damn Nokia and their inability to stick with one kind of charging jack size!
 
I am 29. I remember pagers, just never had one. but I had this moment the other that just made me go, "WOW! Seriously!?"

I was replacing a customers computer. The previous computer was approx 4-5 years old and was running pretty slow so my company gave them new one. while tearing down the old machine i noticed the mouseball was a trackball mouse to which I actually proclaimed, "wow. havent seen one of these in a while..."

i had to step back for a second and ask myself if i really just said that. seriously, a trackball mouse!? its not like trackball mice are 50 years or something.
 
I am 29. I remember pagers, just never had one. but I had this moment the other that just made me go, "WOW! Seriously!?"

I was replacing a customers computer. The previous computer was approx 4-5 years old and was running pretty slow so my company gave them new one. while tearing down the old machine i noticed the mouseball was a trackball mouse to which I actually proclaimed, "wow. havent seen one of these in a while..."

i had to step back for a second and ask myself if i really just said that. seriously, a trackball mouse!? its not like trackball mice are 50 years or something.
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Lol I do the same thing... actually I had the same reaction when my grandma asked me to help her find a vhs... lol....

Oh, I'm 25 and I had a pager/cellphone combo. This was before texting was the thing to do.

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.
 
Fenga Papit said:
In keeping with the pager/beeper theme......

YouTube - Funny Date Commercial
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ROFLMAO! I totally remember that commercial. Funny thing is, Smart Beep SUCKED!...LOL. I remember that all it offered was the ability to page a number (basic coverage), so very limited compared to other companies that were a little more expensive per month, but a lot more options. AND you couldn't do pager writing (multiple texts on one phone call).

I remember, I got so efficient at making multiple pages to 1 pager.
 
I had to carry a pager for my first real job, was on call once a month. We put in E-911 systems and CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch). So Id get paged in the middle of the night and have to tell a dispatcher how to turn the dumb terminal off and on.

Anyone remember every time a pager went off half the people in the resturaunt would reach for theirs since they all sounded the same.
 
Okay so I'm going to be 32 soon. So this definitely brings back some memories.
1. I had the Nokia 5110 (or something like that) back in 1998 or so. Anyway, it never had vibrate until they came out with this new battery where it will vibrate when you receive a call. That was the coolest thing ever at the time. I also remember that the phone weighs like 5 lbs (or at least it felt that way). So it's the battery that actually vibrates and not the phone (cost about $30 back then, so it was pretty expensive).

2. Even before that phone, I had the clear pager show above. I remember one of my classmate in speech class had to do a "show and tell" speech and he did one on how to send text messages to pagers. Now keep in mind that at the time, these pagers do not have actual text (letters) but only numbers. So he showed us a few like "I miss you" --> "1 177155 4", and some others. Anyway everyone in the class was so fascinating with the topic, they kept asking many questions. Even the teachers like, "wow this is so interesting! the technology is great!" LOL
3. The closest thing we have to a bluetooth headset was this:
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I'm 22 so I never had a pager, but I certainly remember them! My father used to have one and I used to think they were so cool (people could get in touch with you! While you were out!).

My parents also got their first cell phones around the time I was 11. I remember how huge they were! I think we still have one of them lying around and unfortunately I can't remember what brand they were.

Remember dial-up? I think that was the centerpoint of my childhood. We had the 'net when I was 10 and I used to always get pissed when someone would call and knock me off :)
 
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