Beeper Code: The Caveman Days of Text Messaging

In 1999 , 45 million Americans had pagers . They were an adequate - opportunity engineering , owned by drug dealers , whores , medico and chief operating officer — and new college students whose parent could n’t swing the ternion . At least there was the code .

Saddled as I was with my pager , I did what I could to obviate actually picking up the phone . For Christmas my mum cave in me a few rolls of quarters : a admonisher that when she paged me , I was suppose to call her back . Most of my paging , however , was sending numerical messages to my supporter Sarah .

My beeper was green ! Hers was pinkish ! We were so very coolheaded . This number - to - word conversion we became addicted to will probably go down as only a very minor footer in turn - of - this - century communication , but , for kid who ’d never known from schoolbook electronic messaging and scarce used email , the idea that I could send her any kind of message and she ’d get it in a flash — that was pretty darn immense .

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Some of our codes were super secret so I ca n’t share them , but others were received : 411 for information , 911 for exigency , 143 to symbolized the routine of letters in each word of the phrase “ I bang you . ”

There was also an accepted organisation of sending numbers so that , when written together , look mistily like letters . We ’d develop up pose adults to spell “ BOOBLESS ” on calculators by type in the element of a narration about Dolly Parton and then holding the calculator upside down . ( Her bra size was 69 and that was 2 , 2 , 2 cock-a-hoop . So , she take 51 diet anovulant and proceed to see Dr. X eight clip . Now she ’s … 55378008 . ) From there , it was an easy jump to many other parole . Hello was 07734 . That was one of the easiest one . We order “ Hello ” a lot . Bitch ? Why that was 81764 , naturally . There were so many , it became necessary to have beeper - codedictionaries , or at least , abasic decoder .

Now , Sarah and I text using actual words written using factual letters . Boring .

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