Posted: 10/11/2016 11:12:51 AM EDT
How many of you youngsters know what a beeper is ?
My first one was the Motorola Bravo. 
My last one was the Motorola Motorola Advisor Elite |
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I had one assigned to me in the Navy in the early 2000s. I think it was a Motorola Bravo as well. About 2004 we started using cell phones  It's interesting when you think just how recent modern cell phones are with large screens and all that computing power. Not even 10 years ago it wasn't realistic for everyone to even have a color display on their phone! |
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Im just here to say I had a couple beepers and I thought I was hot stuff. I was like 13 and chicks would send you little messages you had to figure out with the phone letters. Kids now will never know the struggle of having to figure out a text  123,143, 911 i forgot the rest... 
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Bravo here, I still had one when I was working in an ER..our experience call brings the team running. Very efficient.
The production factory was here in Lantana, FL. It was nothing but Mexican females, the men worked landscape jobs. It was the late 80s and people were happy then. 
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And it was almost that big too... No display ... you had to know who paged you, so there better be only one person that knew how to page you... Funniest thing was to have it go off when in church... But the crowd pleaser was to have it go off while in line at McDonalds and watch the staff run to check the fries... |
First one was a Motorola Advisor I think:
I remember how goddamn awesome it was to read CNN stories two lines at a time! Last physical one was a Timeport... 
The current one is a PagerDuty App on my iPhone. |
| I had a cheap Motorola from work in the early 1990s. It was numbers only, so we had a few codes worked out to use for personal reasons. We knew each other's phone numbers, so we generally had a good idea what the call would be about if one friend from work paged another.We might page someone to the district office phone, then page a personal number so the person knew who wanted to talk to them. I think the company had a flat rate service, so they didn't care if we used them for things unrelated to work as long as we answered their pages. |
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sometime in the later 90's
had several versions and I think one of the last ones would get one line of text no idea how you texted a beeper back then cell phone reception in our area was pretty much nonexistent there were "good signal spots" so you would get a page and then find a phone or drive to the nearest cell signal spot so beepers stayed around a couple years longer than they should have only code I remember is 143 = I love you but i remember there was a ton of code even had a little booklet with all the code in it to help decipher ETA: its been 15-20 years but I just had my pager number pop in my head clear as day 
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First was around 1998. Last was around 2005. Dropped it in a toilet. Said if you need me just call my cell. Had a co-worker in the early 90s that dropped multiple pagers in toilets, she fished one out of a port-a-potty. I told her to just leave it next time. |
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HAd a few over the years back in the last 80's. Can't really remember them all. I know I wanted one of the new ones that gave a few lines of text but never got one. I moved and then picked up a cellphone. I'm pretty sure I had this for a while. I think I had another at one point too. |
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Looked a lot like this, no clue what happened to it... http://www.directpage.com/images/1life-plus.jpg Mine was like that except in purple translucent. That was my first & last. |
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How many of you youngsters know what a beeper is ?
My first one was the Motorola Bravo. http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mxG2tODtx0HcalFXAleRORg.jpg My last one was the Motorola Motorola Advisor Elite http://order.pageplusaz.com/image.php?id=16210&type=P This right here.....both from work. |