neosapien
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I feel like with the advent of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos etc, Radio Shack's demise was a little premature now. If only they could have held on like 5 years longer lol.
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DarkWeb
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I miss radio shack. Probably more than any other one of those stores.
neosapien
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We had several home improvement type general stores around here called Trader Horn. They were much more than that though. Best fucking store ever. Always had that weird thing you were looking for or never knew you needed. Their slogan was "Your favorite store". And it was. Then the Lowes came and gutted them. That's my most missed store. Sad.
DarkWeb
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We had one store like that. It was great. Then Sears hardware bought it and it was still really good.....more modern but not the same.
xtsho
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I remember when Circuit City went out of business. They had one of those store closing clearance sales. I went to take a look and it was a mob. I looked around and noticed that many of the prices had actually been marked up. I walked out shaking my head. People thought they were getting a deal. because there was a big "Clearance Everything Goes" sign out front.
Last time I was in a Radio Shack before they closed it looked like they had already switched completely over to just selling cell phones. I was in there looking for electronic components and when I asked if they still carried any they pointed me to this small cabinet that was basically empty. I remember when they had a huge supply of parts for the electronics hobbyist. I had several of those kits that let you build all kinds of circuits and stuff when I was a kid and then moved up from those. I doubt they would have been able to transition back to an actual electronics parts store.
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DarkWeb
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Last thing I bought from them was a cheap cellphone for my wife. Phone broke a few days before a road trip she had to take so I got a cheap cellphone and put in her sim.
I remember I put led tail lights on my one of the rock buggies I built. When I hit the turn signal all 4 would go on. Went to radio shack and got a few parts...soldered them in and street legal again
neosapien
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No doubt. One of the oldest tricks in the retail book. Amazon does that too around the holidays.
I don't. They had a ridiculously draconian return policy.
Heathkit, lots of budding engineers began there.
BarnBuster
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Off the subject a tad but the one store I miss here in town is the GENUINE independent hardware store with it's own unique smell, creaking wood floors, little dusty cabinets filled with all sorts of screws, bolts and connector minutia and the really ancient little gentleman who knew exactly what you needed even if you didn't.
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yet again
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xtsho
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Plus they sold items that had been previously returned to the manufacturer as new. I think some of the stuff they were selling they bought at auction. I bought a motherboard there one time and when I opened the box there was an RMA form in it. I took it back and like you said had to deal with their crappy return policy. I got my money though as I started talking loud about how they were selling repaired merchandise as new. I've been know to make a scene.
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Today in Internez History:
On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became the first royalty-free, easy-to-use means of browsing the emerging information network that developed into the internet as we know it today.
Berners-Lee was a fellow at CERN, the research organization headquartered in Switzerland. Other research institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University had developed complex systems for internally sharing information, and Berners-Lee sought a means of connecting CERN’s system to others. He outlined a plan for such a network in 1989 and developed it over the following years. The computer he used, a NeXT desktop, became the world’s first internet server. Berners-Lee wrote and published the first web page, a simplistic outline of the WorldWideWeb project, in 1991.
CERN began sharing access with other institutions, and soon opened it up to the general public. In releasing the source code for the project to the public domain two years later, Berners-Lee essentially opened up access to the project to anyone in the world, making it free and (relatively) easy to explore the nascent internet.
Simple Web browsers like Mosaic appeared a short time later, and before long the Web had become by far the most popular system of its kind. Within a matter of years, Berners-Lee’s invention had revolutionized information-sharing and, in doing so, had dramatically altered the way that human beings communicated. The creation and globalization of the web is widely considered one of the most transformational events in human history. 4.39 billion people, including you, are now estimated to use the internet, accounting for over half the global population. The average American now spends 24 hours a week online. The internet’s rise has been the greatest expansion in information access in human history, has led to the exponential growth in the total amount of data in the world, and has facilitated a spread of knowledge, ideas and social movements that was unthinkable as recently as the 1990s.
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On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became the first royalty-free, easy-to-use means of browsing the emerging information network that developed into the internet as we know it today.
Berners-Lee was a fellow at CERN, the research organization headquartered in Switzerland. Other research institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University had developed complex systems for internally sharing information, and Berners-Lee sought a means of connecting CERN’s system to others. He outlined a plan for such a network in 1989 and developed it over the following years. The computer he used, a NeXT desktop, became the world’s first internet server. Berners-Lee wrote and published the first web page, a simplistic outline of the WorldWideWeb project, in 1991.
CERN began sharing access with other institutions, and soon opened it up to the general public. In releasing the source code for the project to the public domain two years later, Berners-Lee essentially opened up access to the project to anyone in the world, making it free and (relatively) easy to explore the nascent internet.
Simple Web browsers like Mosaic appeared a short time later, and before long the Web had become by far the most popular system of its kind. Within a matter of years, Berners-Lee’s invention had revolutionized information-sharing and, in doing so, had dramatically altered the way that human beings communicated. The creation and globalization of the web is widely considered one of the most transformational events in human history. 4.39 billion people, including you, are now estimated to use the internet, accounting for over half the global population. The average American now spends 24 hours a week online. The internet’s rise has been the greatest expansion in information access in human history, has led to the exponential growth in the total amount of data in the world, and has facilitated a spread of knowledge, ideas and social movements that was unthinkable as recently as the 1990s.
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Boatguy
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Lynx was the browser i used in the 90's when i first started playing with linux.Today in Internez History:
On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became the first royalty-free, easy-to-use means of browsing the emerging information network that developed into the internet as we know it today.
Berners-Lee was a fellow at CERN, the research organization headquartered in Switzerland. Other research institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University had developed complex systems for internally sharing information, and Berners-Lee sought a means of connecting CERN’s system to others. He outlined a plan for such a network in 1989 and developed it over the following years. The computer he used, a NeXT desktop, became the world’s first internet server. Berners-Lee wrote and published the first web page, a simplistic outline of the WorldWideWeb project, in 1991.
CERN began sharing access with other institutions, and soon opened it up to the general public. In releasing the source code for the project to the public domain two years later, Berners-Lee essentially opened up access to the project to anyone in the world, making it free and (relatively) easy to explore the nascent internet.
Simple Web browsers like Mosaic appeared a short time later, and before long the Web had become by far the most popular system of its kind. Within a matter of years, Berners-Lee’s invention had revolutionized information-sharing and, in doing so, had dramatically altered the way that human beings communicated. The creation and globalization of the web is widely considered one of the most transformational events in human history. 4.39 billion people, including you, are now estimated to use the internet, accounting for over half the global population. The average American now spends 24 hours a week online. The internet’s rise has been the greatest expansion in information access in human history, has led to the exponential growth in the total amount of data in the world, and has facilitated a spread of knowledge, ideas and social movements that was unthinkable as recently as the 1990s.
CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild
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