Did you have a pager back in the day?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (192960)
United States
July 17, 2025 4:23pm CST
I am watching an older movie where one of the characters is using a pager. I had one back in the 90's for 2 or 3 years, prior to my first cellphone. When your pager went off, you had to call whoever called you as soon as you could find a phone .if you wanted to talk to them that is.
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@MarieCoyle (46374)
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16h
Before cell phones, yes, I did. I honestly did not want one at all, but work bought all of us pagers and required we use them.
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@snowy22315 (192960)
• United States
16h
I didn't mind having one. The babysitter could always get a hold of me.
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@snowy22315 (192960)
• United States
16h
@MarieCoyle I had one of those 3 pound brick phones
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@MarieCoyle (46374)
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16h
@snowy22315
It was handy in many ways. But I traveled a lot for work, and invariably I would get beeped when I was either in heavy traffic or traveling on a busy interstate, which of course always involved stopping and finding a phone. That was the main part I didn't like. I did have one of the first cell phones, a ''bag'' phone for the car, it was OK but usually if I was not in a well populated area, I usually got cut off when I was using it.
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@Orson_Kart (7622)
• United Kingdom
16h
I had one for work in the 90’s too. The 1st used to go off and I had to ring a number. I then got an upgraded one that left a short message. Like you, until I got a cell phone, I had to go find a landline to ring whoever.
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@snowy22315 (192960)
• United States
16h
Yes, there were more payphones you could use as well.
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@AmbiePam (100604)
• United States
17h
My dad had one because people constantly wanted to talk to him. It used to drive us nuts at home with all the calls so he got a pager. He’d always answer the call though which was handy because I got lost at 16, and stopped at a Love’s to use their pay phone. I was so freaked out. I wasn’t used to the interstate at that point, and it showed! I made certain to put a 911 after the pay phone number!
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@snowy22315 (192960)
• United States
2h
They were popular here for a fairly short period of time in the tech evolution. I think doctor's carried them for quite awhile, plumbers etc.
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@id_peace (15823)
• Singapore
1h
@snowy22315 I carry it because my people complain that they could not get me.
@Deepizzaguy (111982)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
15h
I have never had a pager before in my lifetime.
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@Nakitakona (57950)
• Philippines
9h
Nope but I have seen some of friends are using that.
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@snowy22315 (192960)
• United States
4h
Think here everyone uses a cell. I don't think any of the pager companies are still in business.
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@Nakitakona (57950)
• Philippines
3h
@snowy22315 if I remember right there's one middle east country that replace their phones with pager. Have you heard of it?
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@snowy22315 (192960)
• United States
4h
I really don't think I used mine too ling, maybe a year or two.
