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"Does anyone still use a pager?"

I remember a time when pagers were the hip thing to have. All the richest kids had them and all the poor, more pikey kids wanted them. And you had to be pretty well off to send messages to them too. And even then you had to speak the message to someone so they could manually vet it and then, somehow, electronically send it to their little buzzing plastic box. Then mobile phones and texting came and blew it all away in one fell swoop, reducing pagers to being used in restaurants to let you know when your table is ready. Once I wanted to send a messsage to someone that said "Chad blows goats and sucks donkeys", but the operator wouldn't let me. Too rude, apparently. So Ijust said it to his face instead - far cheaper. I'm glad mobiles came along and allow me to send obscene and rude messages to whoever I want.

STE apparently.

It could've been Steph.

If it was, that bit seemed very Big Brother.
Brian, Steph and Jon. Minus the "h".

IB's been watching BB.
Muahaha.

Who spilt beer on John's face?

Pagers were always gay.

One of my ex-gfs had one, no, two, and always tried to get me to send messages to her because no-one else did.

For professionals, I could see the point in them at the time. "You're needed in the office" or "Company X have tabled a new bid" or "Someone's brains are spilling on the surgery floor, we could use your expertise".

But having your 'mates' interrupt you by mindlessly spamming the oval piece of watch battery powered crap attached to your hip with messages like "IT IS BRIAN!! LAST NIGHT WAS MASH UP! STE SPILLED BEER ON JOHNS FACE!!!" just seems a little bit pathetic.

This big kid made me buy one he stole from somebody he beat up, for just £3 it was mine. I got lottery results on it. I later sold it... for £3.

I'm sure that said paper

And no I don't and never have

I remember a time when pagers were the hip thing to have. All the richest kids had them and all the poor, more pikey kids wanted them. And you had to be pretty well off to send messages to them too. And even then you had to speak the message to someone so they could manually vet it and then, somehow, electronically send it to their little buzzing plastic box. Then mobile phones and texting came and blew it all away in one fell swoop, reducing pagers to being used in restaurants to let you know when your table is ready. Once I wanted to send a messsage to someone that said "Chad blows goats and sucks donkeys", but the operator wouldn't let me. Too rude, apparently. So Ijust said it to his face instead - far cheaper. I'm glad mobiles came along and allow me to send obscene and rude messages to whoever I want.