As noted on My Game News Flash, a tongue-in-cheek funeral was held in Akihabara to mark the pager’s demise. The number on the screen 1141064, which is supposed to mean ai shiteru yo (I love you).

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Interestingly, the I-love-you code I often heard about in the early to mid-2000s was 141064 and not 1141064, as seen in these older blog posts (here, here, and here). The number one (1) looked like the English letter “i,” which sounds like the Japanese word ai (愛) meaning “love.” The number four (4) is shi in Japanese. The number ten (10) is te, the number six (6) is ru, and four (4) is yo. There were variations on the codes from friend to friend and school to school, which might explain the variation.

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Pagers are relics of a simpler time, so it’s sad to see them go. Their old-fashioned brethren fax machines will probably stick around a little longer.