No More Beeps: NTT to Kill the Pager
Filed in archive Device Evolution by Scott on March 22, 2007

Before the advent of affordable mobile phones, pagers reached cult status among young Japanese, who used the devices to organize meetups and send coded messages to one another, often late at night.
Those interested should grab a copy of Mimi Ito's terrific work on Japanese mobile culture, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian for a short history of pagers in Japan's recent Pop Culture.
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