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The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months 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.