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Who still uses pagers? (www.voanews.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw something where they gave their kid a pager instead of a phone so they could still be told when to come home but couldn't waste time fucking about online.

I thought that might actually be pretty effective except for the fact that the kid could easily just ignore your pages.

[–] Scolding7300 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Although there are dumb phones out there