A pager (also known as a beeper) is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays numeric and/or receives and announces voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while two-way pagers can respond also.
Doctors were one of the first to use pagers in the 1950s. It wasn't until the 90s that the device became cheaper and more readily available. With cell phones being available to the every day consumer, pager use has become obsolete except locations where mobile phones typically cannot reach users, and also in places where the operation of the radio transmitters contained in mobile phones is problematic or prohibited. For this reason, hospital staff, and public safety officers, may still have regular access to pagers.
Back in the 90s, when pagers were popular with the cool kids, a pager code alphabet list was created where numbers were assigned to represent letters of the alphabet so that messages could be passed (Ex: 177 = "M"). Common pager codes where numbers represented phrases were also developed (Ex: 143 = "I love you").
Doctors were one of the first to use pagers in the 1950s. It wasn't until the 90s that the device became cheaper and more readily available. With cell phones being available to the every day consumer, pager use has become obsolete except locations where mobile phones typically cannot reach users, and also in places where the operation of the radio transmitters contained in mobile phones is problematic or prohibited. For this reason, hospital staff, and public safety officers, may still have regular access to pagers.
Back in the 90s, when pagers were popular with the cool kids, a pager code alphabet list was created where numbers were assigned to represent letters of the alphabet so that messages could be passed (Ex: 177 = "M"). Common pager codes where numbers represented phrases were also developed (Ex: 143 = "I love you").
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