Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines did. Anyway, [Finnley Dolfin] had some pagers and gave them a refresh for the modern era, using them to receive message alerts from Mastodon.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/pager-lives-again-thanks-to-python-and-mastodon/