# Video Games Are Communication Technologies **URL:** \ **Category:** Headshots\ **Created:** [July 26, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.geektherapy.org/t/video-games-are-communication-technologies/1048 "2019-07-26T17:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Headshots](https://forum.geektherapy.org/user_avatar/forum.geektherapy.org/headshots/32/9_2.png) [@Headshots](https://forum.geektherapy.org/u/Headshots)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.geektherapy.org/t/video-games-are-communication-technologies/1048/1 "2019-07-26T17:58:08Z")
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**Author:** ![Lara](https://forum.geektherapy.org/user_avatar/forum.geektherapy.org/lara/32/61_2.png) [@Lara](https://forum.geektherapy.org/u/Lara)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.geektherapy.org/t/video-games-are-communication-technologies/1048/2 "2019-08-14T19:21:11Z")
Lara here, single handedly trying to keep the forums alive! I have a couple comments here. 1. I totally did the “love you, bye!” to several of my friend’s moms and my mom’s friends. 2. What kind of crazy stalker pager did you have, Josué?! I never talked to a stranger on a line, even to page my dad’s work pager. Just dialed a number, when it stopped ringing I dialed more numbers, hit pound, and hung up. Anonymous and easy to make people’s pagers say b00bs. ---
**Author:** ![josue](https://forum.geektherapy.org/user_avatar/forum.geektherapy.org/josue/32/7_2.png) [@josue](https://forum.geektherapy.org/u/josue)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.geektherapy.org/t/video-games-are-communication-technologies/1048/3 "2019-08-14T20:50:05Z")
That’s how alphanumeric pagers worked back in the day! You had to tell the operator what you eanted the message to say!