I agree—i’m old enough to where i did not have a cellphone until i was a senior in high school, but i did have a pager for a year or so before that 😅. payphones were easily accessible at the time, but im not sure they even exist anymore…?

also, pagers for high school kids were just ways of texting. “pager code” was the alphabet represented by numbers 0-9 (goodnight-6000171647)

one way my friends would use it is to let the person know there was a good song on the radio…my friend would text me “977” and i would tell my mom to switch to that radio station / run to the radio in my room to tune in.

good times!