f you would like to see how a bunch of pagers could go off at the same time or explode in Lebanon, see that video here- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YlT7fGTt4_A.html
Yep back in the 90s most of the drug dealers had the pagers. That’s how you were able to spot them because most didn’t have jobs but a nice pager 📟 on their belt.
Who else is here on 9/17/2024? 😂 By the way, the video shows a AA battery that could not do much damage - meaning the beepers that blew up were SPECIFICALLY made for this operation against Hezbollah! Mossad is by far the most advanced intelligence org in the world.
Pagers were the kind of thing that as a kid in the 90’s, I would say “I’ll learn how they work when I grow up.” Now I’m grown up and pagers are nearly extinct. Only really used by doctors at hospitals, I think.
And engineers who don't like the tracking capabilities of cellphones. Not only do they tattle n you where you are, but also what speed you're driving, how aggressively you brake and accelerate, etc. Pagers don't track you, no GPS, no transmit capability, nada.
@@ModelA yeah that data isn't exactly as valuable like you think it is. All anyone really needs to track most anyone is their address and workplace. What does anyone really do 99 percent of the time except go to work and go home?
if they used solid state electrolyte batteries instead of regular batteries which use fluid electrolyte they might have been better off but I don't think those kinds of batteries are available in the market or are manufactured to fit such devices besides that the Japanese have a monopoly on those since Toyota and Mitsubishi both have more than 3000 patents in the development of this technology
Sometimes the older generation hates on the younger generations for not knowing older technology. It vids like these that help for someone who is young to be able to learn about things we weren’t around for. Great vid!
Thanks for making this as informative as possible without talking about how bad cellphones are. So often people do that and it’s refreshing to listen to you!
I was born in 2003 and this type of technology fascinates me, I truly believe we were at the peak of communication technology in the late 90s, this is taking into account the lack of negative societal effects, all the current day “Smart” devices definitely have their benefits but ultimately I believe they are a detriment to us all. I much prefer the “analogue” (lol) digital technology
Well I am 24 years old and I actually I remember my parents had pagers never bothered to ask them how they used them. Great tape man keep up the great work. I do remember hospitals using beepers or pagers.
When my now 40 year old son was a kid (12, 13, 14) the pager was wonderfully convenient for keeping track of him, calling him home for dinner, etc. It was soooo convenient. I still have it.
Yes! I was the coolest kid in town when I had one of these at 12. Dad wanted me home and that sucker would start beeping! Back of course when you could just play out in the neighborhood unspervised all day at the age of 12.
‘98 baby here and have never used one of these but saw my parents did, never understood how they worked. i have my own kiddos now (1.5 years old twins) i’m thinking of starting them off with one of these 😂
after like 20 years of my life knowing there were and are pagers i finally got curious enough to find out how they actually work😸thank you very much ♥️🍀
I worked in the amusement business back in the 90's. Was on call about 3 to 4 nights a week. We had those exact same Motorola pagers. My heart kind of jumped when your pager went off - just like my heart jumped when my damned pager would go off at 3 AM for a service call. Love hate relationship with pagers back then!
Im a 2000s kid, and I admire older technology for its simplicity and long-lasting. Unfortunately, nowadays I think our technology is too invasive, complicated, and short-lived.
I am a 21 year old student from Europe, Romania and I have read a book that mentioned the name "pager". this is impressive! I ll dive into it more, hoping that I can dial a pager on my own! thanks. Lee.
My mom and dad used to use pagers to send coded messages to each other. They'd send 3 digit long numbers and each one had a different meaning. Like, 111 meant they got a check in the mail. 511 meant call me back, etc. Once cell phones became available there wasn't as much need, but I still remember them using pagers back in the day.
I'm 2nd year in medical school, and while on placement the hospital handed me a pager and i had to no clue what it was, so I had to sneak to the toilet and quicky read on Wikipedia what it was and how to use it.
@@ModelA pagers are very useful in hospitals as, phone signal is nearly non existent. Thanks, hopefully my dream of becoming a surgeon becomes reality🤞fingers crossed 😀
@@ModelA Sure. I've been dreading the sound of the pager. Everytime it goes off when you're not on duty, you know its an emergency. It has also been appearing in my nightmares 😅.
Well I was born in 1989 in Australia, but you see pagers never took off here I've never seen one in person so this information is helpful for me as well.
It was "Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me". Good catch! Kim Possible came out in 2002 (I had to look it up). Back in 2002, pagers were still the most reliable way to reach someone since the cellular network wasn't really well built out yet. I knew lots of people who had cellphones but left them off, and just gave people their pager number. When someone wanted to get you in an emergency, they would page you because you knew it went through. Then, when you got to an area where your cellphone worked, you'd call them back.
I'm 28 and I really want one of these in 2021! I don't know why exactly. I think watching my mom & dad (sales and hospital) always had a pager and I thought they were so cool, I still kinda do! Great video Paul, thank you.
Damn Paul, I gotta give you credit, you're the first person I've heard of in my almost 23 years who still has a pager on them. Thanks for the informational video! Seeing these is a trip
yes i am a kiddo, 20 years old, and i love how pagers work. i grew up with windows xp vista and not using cellphones back then, so my father got me into 80s to 90s stuff when i was growing up. he is now almost 50 and i am glad i was taugh about the era of them years. that being said, i will bring back old vintage stuff into reality, as i love the 80s so much!! music, clothing and everything else
I worked on those (including that model) for years. They were the bomb in the day. I still have mine. What a throw back. We shutdown our system around 2001-2002. Good memories working on the pagers and the system. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Haha! Awesome! I was born just after pagers started to ‘go out of fashion’ as it were. I’m also one of the very few people my age who still knows how they work, I just came for a little bit of computer nostalgia. If it wasn’t a required part of my job and how I access documents, I’d honestly go back to using a pager and a flip phone, it would make my life much more enjoyable!
I was born in 1990. So I was just old enough to be aware of pagers, as something adults used to communicate. You know, for work or the like. But I was young enough that I had no reason to ever use them. Things like TV and movies never bothered to explain pagers, because they assumed the viewer already knew. And then cell phones became ubiquitous fixtures in daily life by the time I was old enough to need one. So I knew what pagers were, but not what they _did._ Thank you for explaining it to me in a succinct manner.
Being born in 2001, I remember when I was little that I found my moms old pager and asked her what it was. Even when she explained it, I still didn’t understand it. Thanks for giving us young folk a better understanding! 😂
For my first job in the late 80's, I had a Motorola SPIRIT voice pager, which you could hear a message from a person calling you over the phone. It was cool!
I missed out on pagers man, the country I live in had no pager service :( never knew they existed either, would’ve been cool to have one, even now. Fantastic at work
I had 4 back in the day one for every member of my family it's was useful during an emergency when my daughter was serious ill I was at work on a building site my age now 70yr the one I had also gave news updates Alec from Scotland
Wow even after a year this man is still responding to comments what a legend also i might have to get one for myself they look like a great back up just in case of emergencies
Drug dealers really did love pagers back in the day... No longer needed to stand out on the corner so much. People forget that pre 90 the only way to reach someone was calling their landline... A dope dealer leaves his place to go take care of business how will customers reach him??? Communication was a lot less convenient back in the day. People really had to go look for someone if they needed to take care of something asap. NYC especially.
Excellent point! The main reason pagers were associated with drug dealers and shady businesses was because even in cellular phone infancy, before every cellphone was also a GPS, people knew that cellphones had to constantly handshake with the network, and could be tracked. Pagers are receive-only, meaning they never transmit (unless it is a 2-way pager), and therefore, completely untraceable.
I looked up this video because I started watching The Wire a while back and in the first season the drug dealers used pagers in combination with payphones to stay discreet. Funny how every season after that the technology advances so fast that both the criminals and police are racing to stay ahead and think of new ways to communicate and listen in respectivaly. Haha
It must be mid-90s, I presume? It is funny that I read all about pagers in books, comics and other literature as a child in late 90's, but I got never a hold of them as mobile phones quickly took over the market by early 2000's.
Wow, I learned so much. I'm 22 and I've seen pagers on shows from the 90's and early 00's (mostly on doctor shows) and I never really knew how they worked until now. Thank you
Thanks for the video man. I'm 26 but all I remember if the beeper/pager era was my uncle's all had them and I thought they were cool as shit. I thought about going off grid with just a hone phone and a pager for a year as a challenge. This video made me realize the actual use of it
When I was a kid , I thought pagers were really cool and wanted one. My senior year in high school my boyfriend now my husband. My inlaws had a bag phone and it was to only be used in emergency. First cell phone I seen. We married for a few years when cell phones started being used. Those flip phone all you can do is call or send a short text. I remember the razor phone that came out. Suprising phones back then last so long. I remember dropping one in a cup of coffee and it still worked perfectly.
Yes!! I still use a flip phone (as you saw in the video) and drive a 90 year old car (see some of my other videos), so I get to relive it every day. What is stopping you or your husband from getting a pager nowadays? They're cheap! Go for it!
Born in '03, I remember my dad used to use one for his job when I was young. Nowadays they've definitely updated to a more modern system but it's interesting to finally learn how they work!
I never fully knew how these work until now, thanks for the detailed explanation. I was aware they worked over radio but didn't know how the service functioned end to end. Really fascinating, especially the batching system.
Felt so great to see that this guy's not only using just the pager but an old laptop and a flip phone from 00s....U took me back in the school days man 🤗
I was born in 85 and these were already pretty much gone when i was old enough to notice. I remember seeing a few. i got my first cell phone at 16. He still has a similar flip phone. 😂
Yeah I knew about them too, tho that was mostly do to tv shows (Kim Possible) and music from the early 2000s. It’s really interesting how they actually work.
They helped a lot for 2 reasons 1. Cellphones were super expensive 2. Cellphones were not widespread 3. When everyone got cellphones the reception was very poor in early 1990’s-early 2000’s. If you missed a phone call you would know for 5-10 minutes and you would be at other end of town,,, you could fwd voicemail to a pager and it would instantly beep
I was born in 96 and I remember my mom had pagers up until the mid 2000s. I remember how they got fancier over the years and you could get news and sports updates on them.
I'm 27. My uncle owned a construction company when I was just a little boy in the early 2000s and he carried this thing everywhere. Had one of those suitcase cellphones in his truck too. Never knew how a pager actually worked until now. Cool!
There’s a ham radio project that uses POCSAG pagers in the UHF and VHF bands. With a ham license you could essentially setup your own pager transmitter that is tied into an internet network. The project is called DAPNET and is popular in Germany/Europe but has been gaining traction in the US.
@@ModelA could be numerous reasons. You wouldn’t necessarily have to put it on the internet, so it could be independent of any infrastructure…like good for emergency comms. I’ve also seen some use it for any sort or telemetry or info such as repeater site telemetry to let the control op know of any number of conditions, weather information, band conditions reports. The uses are up to the imagination.
Went across these in Yakuza Zero video game which takes place in 80s Japan, I always knew what they were but I didn't really know how they'd function Nice video
Are you dumb? Did you see the video? It's literally a AA battery - that would not have caused the damage that you see on thousands of terrorists bodies. This had to have been manufactured SPECIFICALLY for this operation. Mossad are absolute LEGENDS.
I was watching Friends on the episode where Ross has a beeper to know when to go to the hospital when his baby was going to be born and I got curious on how beepers work! I was born in 1998 and I never saw these in my childhood haha. Thanks for the great explanation!
Brings back memories. I remember when my best friends dad got one in 1989 through his job and it blew my mind as a kid. I also remember him referring to it as his ball and chain, lol. Before the decade was up, cellphones ruled the world. Looking back now, it's pretty amazing how far technology advanced within that decade. I still have MP3's saved from the Napster days of 1999.
15 year Motorola technician here. I spent countless hours in a Faraday cage repairing the dozens of models that existed over the years. The worst of those repairs came from the hospitals because HC workers would accidentally drop them in the toilet.