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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I thought pagers were still a thing in medicine/hospitals.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So are fax and floppies for really old processes and equipment, but pagers are not visually/culturally iconic and most people never had one so most people born after 2000 wouldn't recognize them at a glance unless they worked in a specific field that uses severely outdated tech. Hell, there are probably still industrial machines in production somewhere that take punch cards.