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ultrasaurus
791 days ago
Literal beepers were still in use as late as 2012 as backups for on call people, enough so that we supported them at PagerDuty for redundancy (the API was email->provider->beeper)
https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/short-emails-for-your-pager/
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baseballdork
791 days ago
They're still in use for people who work in SCIFs.
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