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Pager Lives Again Thanks To Python And Mastodon (hackaday.com)
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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines

Huh. I never thought about it before, but the times I can remember pagers being a significant plot points in sitcoms is when they were already on the way out. Dennis Duffy's pager business on 30 Rock for example.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They use pagers all the time in Scrubs, since hospitals were one of the last places were pagers were still useful.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Still do, I have my pager on me right now. Though I feel they've gone down in quality over the years. I usually go through at least one a year, and the buzzer function tends to die after just a few months.

[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

There was Big Bob's Beepers on Hey Arnold.