[mherdeg]

Roughly in this genre, the 9/11/2001 pager text data ( https://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html ) are an interesting peek inside people's putatively private conversations.

[INTPenis]

That was super fascinating. I had no idea these existed.

People are getting automated messages of Mozilla Mac builds being complete during the disaster.

I was 16 when this happened so I had no idea pagers were used like this. Sort of how push messages or chatops is used today. To aide developers or ops people with notifications.

[ryanianian]

Amazon used skytel pagers for oncall notifications until very recently. I had one in 2014.

[treesknees]

Hospitals and other facilities still use pagers for oncall duties. It's quite common. They're robust and last days without a charge.

[sevensor]

When I carried a pager as an engineer at a factory, it lasted for months on AA batteries. It's been almost a dozen years, so I'm starting to forget whether it was one cell or two. It took me years before I stopped reaching for my hip every time the lights flickered.

[coin]

> 2001-09-12 00:26:08 Metrocall [0134738] A ALPHA Frm: MSN Txt: Hotmail TheFreeStuffNews.com:Take a 5 minute Survey to Win $1,000!

I see that spam was alive and well back then

[wil421]

Lots of reboot NT machine and other IT looking pages. I feel sorry for those sys admins.

[1f60c]

What is this?

[willstrafach]

Pager messages collected on September 11, 2001. They are also a type of communication which is transmitted without encryption.

[octoberfranklin]

s/is/was/

I miss the days when there was a messaging service you could buy in order to recieve text messages nationwide without transmitting your location.

RIP POCSAG

[JosephRedfern]

POCSAG and FLEX are still quite active, in the UK at least.

[LeCow]

I regularly stumble on POGSAG form hospitals/ are homes/logistics places. They throw a lot of credentials around.