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Beepers with text were peak technology.
by pizzafeelsright 3y ago
Beepers with text were peak technology.
- jerlam 3y agoBeepers are the minimal phone that we had all along.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoYC summer 24: our beeper-with-text app startup is hiring full stack developers
- postmodest 3y agoOur SMS-to-Internet microblogging app startup is hiring full stack developers.
- Feathercrown 3y agoCouldn't Twitter do that once?
- mulmen 3y agoYes. That’s the reason for the 140 character limit.
- creaturemachine 3y agoThat was essentially twitter 1.0
- astura 3y agoThat was the joke.
- jtriangle 3y agoYes, it was glorious.
- sznio 3y agoThat was the point of Twitter.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoThis is confusing. This exists already, no?
- mrmetanoia 3y agoIt wasn't until the two-ways that I even kind of wanted one. I remember being at the mall with a group of kids and one of the girls got paged by her mom and we had to go around to find a pay phone for her to check in and I recall thinking 'well that's stupid, I just check in when I get somewhere and when I leave, she's just carrying an annoying reminder to go find a payphone' Once kids started sending little messages with them, I wanted one. Then they had fun colors and transparent cases. Luckily my nokia brick phone was just a few years away, half a life-time then, but just a few years in hindsight. ;) None of my friends at that time were drug dealers, but they liked to joke they were because of the stigma.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoCollect call with a "I'm on my way home" as the caller. Dad would decline.
- mrmetanoia 3y agoI couldn't believe this worked when one of my friends did it! Felt like such an easy cheat lol My parents likely wouldn't have approved but this payphone conundrum was what lead to me and my friends attempt to build a red box, which never worked well for us but we learned a lot in the attempt!
- elric 3y agoNah, Nokia 3330 with WAP, that stuff was awesome. I built a bunch of WAP sites way back when. Slow, clunky, but usable on a phone with a tiny screen and a numeric keypad. Happy days.
- adamomada 3y agoA 386 in your pocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_950 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_950
- cdchn 3y agoI never knew the Blackberry pagers were 386s. I know they've made a variety of portable 386s (and still do) but had no idea they made them into Blackberries.
- ultrasaurus 3y agoLiteral beepers were still in use as late as 2012 as backups for on call people, enough so that we supported them at PagerDuty for redundancy (the API was email->provider->beeper) https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/short-emails-for-your-pager/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/short-emails-for-your-pager/
- baseballdork 3y agoThey're still in use for people who work in SCIFs.