Anyone Here Old Enough To Remember Pagers or "Beepers"?
I designed this one in Inkscape.
It's based on the Motorola one that was very popular.
I was pretty happy with how it turned out so I figured I'd share it here.
In many ways, the pager was the precursor to text-messaging.
I'm working on this insanely long post about the history of the cell phone, and the transformation into the smartphone. I have hundreds of images, and designs.
Probably a thousand words so far.
I might even make it into a video. I figure if I can lay it all out in a Hive post complete with images; that'll be like a third of the work already done.
But I always think that until I'm a month in trying to get the damn thing finished.
I recorded this with Peek.
A wonderful tool that lets you screen-capture into a .gif.
Designed with: Inkscape
I can't explain how important this piece of software is to me.
I use Inkscape to make basically everything.
I've even used it to design websites back when I still did that lol.
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I never had one but i certainly remember them. They were mostly for people who were on call for their job, drug dealers, and rich kids, lol.
My father had one, but he's a welder/fabricator.
He also used to sell weed and maybe some other things idk, but I think the pager was given to him by his welding job.
I never had a pager, but then I was late to mobile phones as I didn't see a need.
Yeah I was pretty late too. I think I was like 19 when I finally got a phone, and everyone else I knew had one when we were like 14.
I never had a pager though. Never even knew how they worked until recently.
I was in my 30s after we had kids. Obviously my kids had them eventually, but only when they really needed to stay in touch.
Yeah that was why all my friends had them. Their parents paid for them.
My parents and grandparents all had them, and idk why but I didn't want one.
I used to memorize a lot of phone numbers.
For a few years my parents had these phones I think called Nextel, and they had something called push to talk. It was like a long range walkie-talkie.
They were popular with tradesmen on large job sites.
I always wondered why they went away.