Pagers lack more modern navigation technologies so can be harder to track, but are still widely used in hospitals for their reliable service. By Daisuke Wakabayashi In the 1990s, before the widespread ...

Once ubiquitous in the 80s and 90s, the humble pager seemed destined for the technology graveyard, outpaced by the rise of mobile phones and internet technology. However, in a surprising turn of ...

The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural Kansas, Dove used the little black device ...

FILE - Three women hold the pager 'Quix' as they present it at CeBIT '97 in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday March 18, 1997. The beep-beep-beep of a small black box on your belt or in your pocket was ...

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