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When people in tech say "paged" do they/you literally mean it? Or do you just mean text message but the terminology has stuck as a throwback to the days when pa
by biturd 14y ago
When people in tech say "paged" do they/you literally mean it? Or do you just mean text message but the terminology has stuck as a throwback to the days when pagers were how people were on emergency call.
I suspect there still is a small pager business out there somewhere, perhaps for doctors and adhering to some legacy hippa rules, but they must be sparse.
- e1ven 14y agoI carry around an honest-to-goodness old-school pager. I love it. It works even when I get next to no cell signal, it works when I screw up the newest ROM of my phone. It works when I'm out of battery. It runs weeks on a AA. I have messages go to SMS as well, but when the servers are down, damn it, I need to know.
- falcolas 14y agoIt's a combination of growl/SMS/email. The terminology has stuck around (and I know doctors still use actual pagers for their reliability). And given our issues lately with our phone carrier silently blocking our messages as spam, the thought of going back to an old school pager for reliability is still there.