99 The Beeper (Chris 20)
from Phone Messages Hosted by Paul Mason Fotsch
The first pager system was used by the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. Although associated with drug dealers, by the 1990s beepers became popular among teenagers, who developed elaborate codes based on numerical displays.
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