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    151 day ago

    Even as a younger millennial they were barely in my life. My mom had one when I was in elementary school for work, and other than that I just know beepers from medical shows and Dennis, the beeper king, from 30 Rock. Technology is cyclical.

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      524 hours ago

      Millennials at least had media that were still active that used pagers. For example, any kid growing up with Hey Arnold (1996, the final cutoff year for a millennial roughly), you would get introduced to Big Bob’s Beepers which is literally just a store that sells pagers.

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      322 hours ago

      They used them at my parents’ church in the late 90’s— parents of little kids would hold one during the service in case the nursery needed them