Word: pagers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provider of seamless coast-to-coast calling because the new services are still fragmented and operate on three different technical standards. And you have to buy the digital phones, which a company like AT&T sells in the New York City area for $79 to $149, including a small pager-like window that displays messages. Basic analog phones, on the other hand, are frequently offered for little or nothing as incentives to sign...
...assistant coach at Arizona State. But after a recruiting scandal there in 1985, he went back to being a coaching gypsy: Baltimore, Maryland; Savannah, Georgia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Venezuela. His trips home to Phoenix lost all frequency, and Henry's presence was reduced to an electronic pager he left with the kids...
...PARLIAMENT, POLITICS BY PAGER...
...database and communications weaponry. As Conservative Prime Minister John Major fielded a softball question about the insurance business, a member of Labour's "rebuttal unit" dived into the party's database and identified the questioner as a paid consultant for the insurance industry. The researcher zapped the news via pager to a Labour M.P. sitting in the House of Commons, producing an awkward moment for Major and a revolution in real-time technological politics...
...Tories were not amused. Cell phones were already banned in the chamber because of their disruptive rings, but use of a silent pager presented a whole new issue. And the notion of stiff-lipped British pols beeping and winking their way through the Commons made more than one Conservative M.P. queasy. After mulling the matter over for an evening, Speaker Betty Boothroyd ruled that using the gadgets as an aide-memoire was "totally unacceptable," handing the Tories a victory in battle. But with the general election fast approaching, Labour's rapid response showed its determination...