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2. Pager - Wikipedia

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   Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

3. Motorola PageWriter 2000 - Wikipedia

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   Motorola PageWriter 2000. The Motorola PageWriter 2000 was a two-way pager introduced in 1998. [1] Featuring the 68000 based Motorola DragonBall processor, 1 MB of internal storage, a four color grayscale screen, IrDA transmitter/receiver, and a full QWERTY keyboard the PageWriter represented a combination of both PDA and pager in one package.

4. PageNet - Wikipedia

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   PageNet. PageNet, also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.

5. Who still uses pagers anyway? - AOL

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   Who still uses pagers anyway? September 19, 2024 at 12:59 AM. (Reuters) -As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make ...

6. Hezbollah pager explosions in Lebanon and Syria: Everything ...

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   Pagers pre-date mobile phones, having been widely used in the 1980s and 1990s. They are a one-way communications device, allowing people to send a short message via radio signal to the pager ...

7. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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   One-way pager use hit its peak in 1998, and then began a rapid downward spiral. The arrival of the two-way cell phone quickly rendered the technology — long a mainstay of drug dealers and ...