RadioShack, and it’s not even close.
Can we do radio shack from the 80s early 90s over the cellphone retailer they turned into before death.
Just before they flatlined, they started stocking more modern hobbyist stuff. Arduinos, shields, Parallax Propeller, and Vex, but stupid expensive.
I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.
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Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.
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None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.
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RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah.
And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.
No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan.
I mean, if we’re bringing like Bible Jesus back, I’d agree. But if we were to bring back the actual Jesus, he’d probably just be some religious lefty with a podcast and no one would care.
I’m not sure how a socialist jew half way around the world from me is going to help me find a specific value capacitor that I need immediately to fix an AV reciever I just picked up from goodwill.
He does make a good point. As much as I like online ordering, being able to go to a store and get what I need the same day is something else
I love living just a short drive from a MicroCenter.
Lucky. The closest one to me is at least a state away
Lucky. The closest one to me is at least an ocean away
I mean…you could still do that. There are just more advanced electronics stores. Just because they’re not called RadioShack doesn’t mean you can’t still got to a store.
[Incoming text message] Cast your eyes to the other side of the car, my child. That discarded television contains the capacitor you need at the end of the spotted blue and white cable.
You didn’t read revelations, did you? When he comes back… Let’s just say it’s going to be a rough ride.
We’re already in for a rough ride. Seeing “Christians” get what’s coming to them would be so worth it
Not to mention the absolute melt down that would happen with the worst of Americans if he came back the same race he was when he died.
Oh man the amount of evangelical Christians in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.
The amount of evangelical Christian’s in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.
You mean…100%?
Conan the O’Brien?
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As someone who tinkers with electronics, hard agree
I was born in 2001, what is RadioShack?
As a kid, it was where you got all the coolest remote controlled cars and helicopters (pre drones). As an electronics tinkerer, they had drawers full of components and other parts for all electronic needs.
The same old 555 timers, opamps, and LED PCB xmas trees they’ve been selling for 30 years are nice but…there’s much more interesting shit now and they didnt seem to catch on to that until the very end when they suddenly rushed out all the Arduino shit.
Around here, Micro Center replaced Radio Shack for my component impulse buy needs, and they even have Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff, and several aisles of a variety of other hobby electronics stuff. It’s RadioShack x100.
Either RadioShack or Toys R Us. The other two, one is useless in this day and age, and the other is Blockbuster
We still have Toys R Us in Canada. As an adult there’s really not much to get excited about in there anymore. At least Radio Shack could bring out some middle aged tinkering in me.
Radioshack fs, bring back the idea of repairing your shit to the public mind
80s RadioShack for sure. I miss that place so much.
RadioShack.
I remember going as a kid, once. I was 5 I think. It was…unique. A shit ton of red I remember. And cheap cell phone cords. Wish I could’ve experienced it more. Especially during the 90s. But that’s before my time.
If you think 90s Radio Shack was great, trust me when I say that 80s Radio shack was even better. They had Heathkit project kits, robots, various TRS and Tandys, plus PARTS. It was so good.
I remember going to RadioShack as a kid too and they had a Tandy computer setup. It was magical for 8 year old me. I think they even did repairs back then because that electrical soldering smell is seared in my memory.
That sounds amazing. Always wanted a Tandy. Even if it’s before my time.
My family’s fist computer was a Tandy 1000 around 92. I was so stoked to make video games on the fly like Clarissa Explains It All did.
Little did I know game development takes a little more elbow grease than cutting and pasting pictures of your friends into an existing game format.
I learned a lot about getting around in DOS because the desktop OS it shipped with was garbage, at least.
RadioShack had everything you were looking for and absolutely nothing at the same time. It was glorious.
When they started filling the store with more cell phone advertising space than anything I knew they were done for… Who in the hell bought cell phones at RadioShack? They stopped carrying much of what I went for, so I stopped going.
RADIOSHACK!!
This is the only answer. I need aether to coaxial converter. For sure they had one.
I’d like to bring back the market environment that made Radio Shack profitable - when the “right to repair” was a given, and not something that needed to be fought for in court.
Jesus. He is slated to return one day anyway but we need him now to show republicans what christianity is all about
Amen brother.
Jesus. Imagine how much of the world would react if
1: jesus literally proved he existed to faiths that say he’s a hoax (im agnostic btw)
2: He reforms the groups that use his name as a pretext to exclude & marginalize others.
3: Dude turned out to have been gaming like a boss in heaven, like dude comes down & faces the pope in Dungeons & Dragons or Pokemon lmfaooo
Plot twist: he gets crucified, again.
- World Christian churches split into at least 2 additional factions per each existing faction (Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, whatever orthodox, and whatever else exists). Each having a slightly different view on the new Jesus dude.
Nevermind if Jesus turns up to be non binary I expect a meltdown then.
- He could turn water into wine.
Definitely Jesus. I want to eat popcorn while I watch Christo-fascists and the prosperity gospel crowd hysterically calling Jesus a terrorist because he took a flamethrower to their vile McChurches.
It would almost be worth going to hell as a nonbelieving heretic if I could see Jesus actually return and start whipping republicans and evangelicals through the street while they decry him as a child grooming liberal homosexual communist.
RadioShack was great when every electronic was analog and you needed some random VGA to RCA adapter at 9pm on a weekday
Yeah and batteries.
And a capacitor to fix your TV.
There’s also an absurd amount of gamer girls entering the space thanks to “cozy desk TikTok” who get a lot of micro electronics and foreign imports, mechanical keyboards, etc. All they would’ve had to have done was offered pink custom keyboards with jade keycaps and make a hobby out of it, and it would’ve been game. Shoot you could even have sold cat ears in the same section.
As a non-American I’m not familiar with any of these things. That dude looks kinda familiar though, wasn’t he one of the Beatles? The one that got shot? Bring him back please!
I miss having knowing there’s a Radio Shack around the corner if I need an obscure component or an exotic battery for a project.
Yeah, you can find anything online now, but you have to wait for it to ship, hope it doesn’t get lost or stolen, and hope they actually sent the right part.
Edit to add: Basically 80-90s RS, not the husk that it was more recently that sold mostly phones and crap toys around the holidays.
Fry’s Electronics
Is Fry’s gone?
He fried his electronics :(
On February 24, 2021, Fry’s announced the immediate and permanent closure of all of its stores.
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Fry’s Electronics
I loved Fry’s. I used to stop by the one in Indianapolis once or twice a year.
