"Pagers": This is how drug dealers used to text in the '90s 😂

I had one in college, but ended up getting rid of it because my girlfriend bugged me too much. Then a few years later got a cellphone, but ditched that because it wasn't very useful. Then a couple years later everyone had them and I got a cellphone again.

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Commies-Fan@reddit

There were pagers that displayed text too. You had to call the carrier and tell them what you wanted to say and they would transceibe it.

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MyNameCannotBeSpoken@reddit (OP)

What? Sounds like too much work.

So you tell the operator to send, "show me your tits"?

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Commies-Fan@reddit

Yep. It was part of the fun. Calling and telling the poor operator to type in whatever stupid shit we had to say then laughing about it.

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AngryTree76@reddit

“187 Murder Death Kill. Would you like to assign a coroner?”

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

No, I’ve just got a question about the 3 seashells and didn’t know who else to call.

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells!

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JaxxisR@reddit

I miss YOO too, man

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Illustrious-Good5086@reddit

Sometimes the fact that weed is like one of the few things that is less expensive and better than it used to be, and that I can get a fat sack mailed to TX from Cali despite its legality.... is all karma for the endless nights me and my friends hung out next to pay phones waiting for callbacks to get ripped off just to barely get high.

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sweetassassin@reddit

I got a pager in ’95.

Grew up in LA, and everyone I knew who had a pager had a whole number alphabet. We were all fluent in this alpha-numeric code, like I would be able to text paragraphs and paragraphs about all the school gossip on one quarter in the pay phone. I could write it and read it like it was my primary language.

I’m really really trying my darnedest to remember all of it, but def some blanks in my mind.

a- 4

b- 8

c- ?

d- 0

e- 3

f- ?

g- 9

h- 4

i- 1

j- 7

k- 14

l- 1

m- 177

n- 17

o- 0

p- ?

q-0

r- 12

s- 5

t- 7

u- 11

v- ?

w- 111

x-?

y- 4

z- 2

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MyNameCannotBeSpoken@reddit (OP)

Like morse code

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Taint_Flicker@reddit

Where the fuck is 17 31707 1?

And 80085, but everyone else already mentioned that one

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Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit

Technology is cyclical, Liz

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Ultimate-Flexionator@reddit

I need a 40 bag of cocaine and a 40 bag of weed

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sweaterbuckets@reddit

Holy shit. I forgot about 143

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

I remember begging my parents to get me a pager in high school and getting exactly nowhere. I tried to convince them that it would be great for them to be able to contact me if they needed me home. They countered that I could be home by curfew like they told me to and if I needed to contact them I could go to one of the pay phones located literally everywhere. Wild to think how quickly the world and expectations changed just a few years later.

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That’s it. 😳