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The first system was the Emergency Broadcast System, an emergency warning system in the United States, used from 1963 to 1997, when it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System. On April 9, 2008, the FCC approved an emergency alert text-messaging system so that cellular telephone users can get text message alerts in case of emergencies. [3]
Alerts—Received when a message is left on your user talk page. Primary information: Message title. Secondary information: in case of a new message: who left the message, and on which page. Links directly to the message. in case of multiple new messages or multiples replies, messages may be grouped ("six new messages on [that page]").
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An all-points bulletin (APB) is an electronic information broadcast sent from one sender to a group of recipients, to rapidly communicate an important message. [1] The technology used to send this broadcast has varied throughout time, and includes teletype, radio, computerized bulletin board systems (CBBS), and the Internet.
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A new notifications tool was released on the English Wikipedia on April 30, 2013, to help better inform users of activity that affects them (related announcement).The introduction of this new notifications system included the removal of the orange notifications bar (often referred to as the "orange bar of doom/death" or OBOD).
In 2013, the government conducted trials of a public alert system using both SMS messaging and Cell Broadcast technology to send alert messages to mobile devices in areas affected by an emergency. A report was published in 2014 that said the trials were successful and that 85% of people thought that such a system would be a good idea, as well ...
The NDRRMC is limited on the number of characters it can use for each emergency alert message. A computer program made for the system is used to create and send the message. [5] The system is location-specific, meaning a message is sent by designating an area where mobile phones within it shall receive the emergency alert.