For the youngins here, I can confirm this, getting caught with a beeper in my school was just as serious as getting caught with weapons or drugs. They were the ultimate contraband.
The forgotten war on beepers
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#52Lets not forget the : Rock-Satan scare of the 80's. Rap-Drug Scare Walkman will let kids get snatched up. The pager Trans people are coming for your husband. Seems like every decade people have to freak out. But it isn't just the common generational trope. The religious right has to always have another issue that can be used as the poster boy for the war on Lucifer. If you don't have a boogie man, then how do you kee…
Comic books. Elvis and the rock-n-roll music. Heck, even self-pleasure makes you grow hair on your palms, lose your eyesight, and causes mental illness.
Don't forget home taping destroyed the music industry and nothing new has been recorded since the early 1980s.
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#54Lets not forget the : Rock-Satan scare of the 80's. Rap-Drug Scare Walkman will let kids get snatched up. The pager Trans people are coming for your husband. Seems like every decade people have to freak out. But it isn't just the common generational trope. The religious right has to always have another issue that can be used as the poster boy for the war on Lucifer. If you don't have a boogie man, then how do you kee…
Comic books. Elvis and the rock-n-roll music. Heck, even self-pleasure makes you grow hair on your palms, lose your eyesight, and causes mental illness. Don't forget home taping destroyed the music industry and nothing new has been recorded since the early 1980s.
And porn on BBSs predated modern Internet porn by a few decades and, as I recall, it was even a Time cover story once--when the weekly news mags were still relevant.
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#55I dont own a phone, but to me a beeper is an okay compromise. During the quest to find one, I came across some really cool things. - Some beepers are made to only RX, not TX, as to not skew results of medical equipment - Basically 2 companies, operating with antequated websites (and prices) still provide service at the historic prices - Beepers are still sold today, new in box - Two-way pagers have been almost totall…
I’m curious about your desire to not own a phone. Have you written about the experience anywhere?
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#56I bet there’s at least one person reading this thread who has heard of the company “PagerDuty” but does not know that it’s referring to a beeper.
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#57I dont own a phone, but to me a beeper is an okay compromise. During the quest to find one, I came across some really cool things. - Some beepers are made to only RX, not TX, as to not skew results of medical equipment - Basically 2 companies, operating with antequated websites (and prices) still provide service at the historic prices - Beepers are still sold today, new in box - Two-way pagers have been almost totall…
Which companies? Where can we read more about the no-TX design?
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#59I dont own a phone, but to me a beeper is an okay compromise. During the quest to find one, I came across some really cool things. - Some beepers are made to only RX, not TX, as to not skew results of medical equipment - Basically 2 companies, operating with antequated websites (and prices) still provide service at the historic prices - Beepers are still sold today, new in box - Two-way pagers have been almost totall…
Which companies? Where can we read more about the no-TX design?
I heard about it years ago probably from WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager#Security
It's very inefficient because every tower must broadcast every message. This is why you can find an archive of pages from the morning of September 11th online, they transmitted unencrypted to a huge area.
So that raises costs and limits the coverage area. Fine for a hospital with 100 idk doctors who need paged, not fine for continental coverage of 100 million users.
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#60Forget the beeper. The idea of arresting a child at school for anything (short of maybe violent assault) seems to be madness.
I'm ok with arresting someone who brings a gun or fentanyl, if that means we get them before they can kill someone.