• wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Wait, family 800 #? I don’t remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don’t think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.

    • Mom Nom Mom@nom.mom
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      11 months ago

      Huh. Well, it was a feature that my parents paid the telco for, so I don’t know how it worked, but it was exactly what it says on the tin: an 800 telephone number that I could use from any phone and call my house phone.

      Pagers were mostly a thing that dealers had so you could buy drugs. My mom got me one because I was always out driving around - sometimes up to 2 hours away on a whim - and she wanted to be able to check on me. We didn’t have a cell phone, so this was the solution for her.