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
ok mr fancypants how about I call it a flopper? How bout that
Everyone knows they are called flippy flops. Gosh
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
Not true, I heard they’re blowing up.
I think those are the “recent events” OP is referring to
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
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.
I wondered about this as a tactic. Like doesn’t a pager really limit the age group / demographic you can target?
Not really. They’re using them because they’re untrackable (one way pagers only receive data and never send anything). That’s quite important if your enemy has laser guided bombs and a complete lack of empathy for civilian lives.
so hot right now
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 doubt it, even if they’ve never seen one in real life, they talk about it a lot in all medical dramas.
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?!”
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Even as a younger millennial they were barely in my life. My mom had one when I was in elementary school for work, and other than that I just know beepers from medical shows and Dennis, the beeper king, from 30 Rock. Technology is cyclical.
I thought he was the Ratking?
Millennials at least had media that were still active that used pagers. For example, any kid growing up with Hey Arnold (1996, the final cutoff year for a millennial roughly), you would get introduced to Big Bob’s Beepers which is literally just a store that sells pagers.
They used them at my parents’ church in the late 90’s— parents of little kids would hold one during the service in case the nursery needed them
Alpha, maybe, but zoomers definitely not.
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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Gen Z, probably would know. Although most of them probably don’t know what a floppy disk is
Floppy disks are too iconic, even if as Save-buttons. Now try them not knowing early ones were actually floppy!
I’m talking about myself, my 1997 ass had only heard of, and saw pictures of, the hard ones
I drew a floppy disk as part of an online game of Pictionary and the youngest member of the team thought it was a Playstation 4.
Although he also tried to spell tarantula with a Q in it, so maybe there’s something else going on there.
