i rocked a few back in my day...when i was first starting high school and everyone thought only drug dealers and doctors had them....


This was all the beepers i used to rock...(all at seperate times)

 

yup, been there....need a new one so I feel important.

 

I thought I was the shit when I got a pager.


(of course I was 13 at the time)

 

Don't doctors still rock beepers cause they can't use cell phones in the hospital?

 

jayz. " I got you a beeper to feel important"

 

old school doctors have them so they can be paged from there answering service...and they dont have to give out there cell phone numbers, now adays u can pretty much have your cell on in a hospital..(my sister works in one and said most doctors carry theres)

 

had my first one in 7th grade.

 

had one in elem. school....still use one today in the hospital

 

I still have to carry one every where I go because I'm a volunteer firefighter. so when someone calls 9-1-1. It drops tones.(the tones are wierd to most people)
it goes Long-short then machine gun beep.(then dispatch comes on and says FOR MAPLEWOOD FIRE DEPT) then repeats Long-short then machine gun beep. then the dispatch tells us whats going on and where to go. I personally carry a Motorola Monitor 2(1994 model)(i know old as hell) but that thing been through hell)(been in actual fires under my fire gear, Once when doing water/ice rescue we had to cut a whole in the ice to draft off of my partner while cutting a hole in the ice (on a pond) fell in. well the thing is it was like 5 degrees out. (he forgot to tie a rope off to the engine) well since I'm also a water rescue specialist. guess who had to be sent in to save him. the thing was I didn't have my water rescue gear and we didn't have time to go back to station and get it. so it was either let him drown or go in now for him. So i took off my turn out gear,tied off to the truck (with a rope) and went in after him(not knowing my beeper was on my belt. we were both okay. they just rebuilt the beeper and everyone and everything fine.

 

I had the garage door opener

 

beepers are still used alot for people who are "on call" (DR's, IT, etc)

 

i had a glow in the dark one with a 1-800# so it was free for people to page me

 

i carried around my home portable phone and pretended it was a cell phone, while driving in car...

 

Mike had all of those you posted there

also had the first one in clear case electric blue

man that was cool in 6th grade

The sports one was awesome, I had that up until 10th grade...even when I had a cell phone. It was only like $20 a month.

 

I hope you had like a 10 gig phone. I got a 5.8 gig Motorola for christmas it's pretty stout I can go about 1/4-1/2 mile and still works.

 

my friend had a beeper when he was younger .....one of those $1/mo beepers.....he found it a few months ago and told me how he cancelled the service years ago....

so he pops in a new battery, and after a few tries of remembering his old beeper number, he calls it AND IT BEEPS! yeah so it still works and he's not even paying for it....that's really weird....

 

Rocked the beepers here. Had 'em for a while, even carried both the beeper and the cell phone for a while.

 

everyone and their facking MOM had the 2nd one. I had a motorola pager... skytel i think? i forget, this is back in like 5th grade. i was a baller back then, now im poor

 

Yep I had one. Finally broke down and got a cell years ago. I was so pissed at my pager that I threw it in the Bay when I was running on the boardwalk one day.

 

Had a Skypager back in 88 or 89...somewhere around there...

Kept me in touch with my job at the pizza shop...

 

I still see people with them.

 

I still have one on my hip. Ugh.

 

 

Why not just get text messages fwd with the numeric or alphanumeric page??

 

<---- was the first kid in the neighborhood w/ one. Had one for drug deals and one for the bitches

 

i had the triangle one for a minute, my shit had one button...ghetto fab...cats used to just flex the clip cuz we couldn't get service

 

Mine is a battery tester.

wsklar who thinks Nextels are the new drug dealer communication device...

 

Believe me, I ask that every day.

It's the way of the archaic system that I work for.

 

i used to sell beepers before cell phones... service was super cheap.. i think it was like $45 for a whole year of unlimited paging... lol.. u don't even see them around here anymore though... even elementary school kids carry a cell phone now..

 

i had this with a beeper cause the battery life was so bad

 

try beeping a girl back in the day, she'd never call you back.

 

Who didn't rock one? i hate that word BEEPER it's a Pager!

 

whats the diffrence between a beeper and a pager???

 

maybe it's a local thing..I called it a pager, too. Still have my "Page-Mart" pager. Hasn't worked since 1996, but I'm a pack rat for sentimental stuff. Had to have a pager when I was 18 or 19. Cells phones were rare then. We used to "cruise the strip" and when friends beeped, we called back from a payphone. I knew where all the pay phones were on the strip. It was all part of the "look"--had to have the pager cliped on your pocket.

 

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I carry one around for work, it's one of those Motorola Advisor ones I think.

 

I got one when I was 13...I was teh shit.

Then upgraded to a cell when I was 15.....I was pretty much the coolest guy on earth at that point.

 

hah i had pager when i was 14-16. lost it then grabbed a cellphone. i had the pimpest shit for a while Nokia 8860. i put that phone threw life support like 10 times until it really really died my plan on that phone kicked ass. 1000 min, free nites weekends 39.99 plus 6.5% tax nothing more. after i got a t68i then nokia 3650 then just about every nextel (since reception and phones suxed) nextel was within a year. now tmobile w/ a SE p910

 

I had a clear pager my number was 1-800-542-5387 and it went straight to my pager, none of that bullshit that goes to a service where you enter a seperate pin#. I had it from 96 to 98. It was pimp shit!

Funny thing is I actually met my wife in a club in '97. I told her to page me and leave her birthday (1231) behind it so I knew it was her. Sure enough she paged me a couple of days later and the rest was history.

Damn, come to think of it, maybe I don't like pagers.... J/K!