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by beamatronic 3594 days ago
These used to be popular in San Francisco even [1]

"Todd founded Rent Tech in 1995 using text pagers to alert clients of new listings. Clients would receive a pager after they signed up for the service, and when a new listing came on the market that fit into their specifications, Rent Tech would send them a page about it. Within two months, the two began to look at how to distribute rental listings on the web, which is where all the company's business now takes place. "

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/1999/09/20/s...