America's Secret Pager Giantby@evilsaloon
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America's Secret Pager Giant

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Spok is the largest pager network in the US. I scraped their website and obtained 478,729 possible pager numbers, and I published my results in a dataset. This was possible only because of a CGI created in another time, and it demonstrates the power, as well as the pitfalls, of legacy tech.

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