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Gonz posted:Circa 1989: When I was cool for getting it and my parents just didn't understand, man
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Babbage’s Electronics Boutique Software Etc. Egghead Software Funcoland Game Crazy CompUSA Circuit City All lost. Like tears in rain.
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Sep 27, 2023 18:53
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Gonz posted:Babbage’s And all the software/computer trade shows in empty warehousen
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Sep 27, 2023 18:55
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Sep 27, 2023 19:59
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Gonz posted:Circa 1989: I remember this aesthetic being in malls well into the mid-late 90s for some stores and I still kinda miss it.
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Sep 27, 2023 21:29
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Gonz posted:Babbage’s Radio Shack had Tandy and software for it
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Sep 27, 2023 22:45
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Grassy Knowles posted:Radio Shack had Tandy and software for it Really Tandy had RadioShack but yes
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maybealabia posted:Really Tandy had RadioShack but yes Now Tandy just has leather
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Gonz posted:Babbage’s You forgot Software City! Mistayke has a new favorite as of 02:02 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sep 28, 2023 01:58
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Gonz posted:Babbage’s Fry's Electronics Cyberian Outpost When Newegg was good  Yes, I know Fry's purchased Cyberian Outpost.
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Toupee Groupie posted:Fry's Electronics I mean if we’re including newegg then tiger direct goes in the list
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Sep 28, 2023 02:35
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Grassy Knowles posted:I mean if we’re including newegg then tiger direct goes in the list I actually bought my TV stand from a Tiger Direct brick and mortar store
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Sep 28, 2023 02:37
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I miss both Fry’s Electronics stores here in Arizona. Especially the one in Phoenix with the full-on Legends of the Hidden Temple motif.  The one in Tempe used to be a place called Incredible Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFXuJqcaJY
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root beer posted:CES is dead now, isn’t it? CES still happens in Jan. It's where we learn what hip new unaffordable thing will trickle down in Home Theatre in the next 3 years (ATSC 3.0) and just for the new generation of (thing).
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It was officially Very Important to have a pencil sharpener installed. I remember getting up and walking over to The Pencil Sharpener. Don't spend too much time sharpening your pencil. Others need their turn.
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Sep 28, 2023 18:56
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Gonz posted:I miss both Fry’s Electronics stores here in Arizona. Especially the one in Phoenix with the full-on Legends of the Hidden Temple motif. I have literally never seen a Fry's in my life. I have only ever heard about it through SA. It is insane how mystical this all seems.
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Animal-Mother posted:It was officially Very Important to have a pencil sharpener installed. I remember getting up and walking over to The Pencil Sharpener. Don't spend too much time sharpening your pencil. Others need their turn. I miss our wall mounted pencil sharpener
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Sep 28, 2023 19:48
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I have one mounted in my garage and I can sharpen for as long as I want, whenever I want.
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I crank one out occasionally for old times sake
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mind the walrus posted:I have literally never seen a Fry's in my life. I have only ever heard about it through SA. It is insane how mystical this all seems. Just picture an elecronics store the aize of a super Walmart and you’re halfway there. And each huge sore had a theme that they had props around the store for. That was kinda gimmicky but neat. Houston had three fry’s stores lol. One on I-45 in the north that was oil themed with a big oil derrick. One on I-45 south that was space themed because it was close to Johnson space flight center… and one in Sugarland (southwest Houston) that I can’t for the life of me remember the theme of now. Maybe also oil? Idk It was neat going there, but I heard a lot of horror stories about the owners and their biz practices, so gently caress em
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flavor.flv posted:https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s1pgf6zWRH1qigaa4.mp4 Considering the fan backlash and the uhhhhhhh.... quality of the first few seasons, it's surprising that this show is the classic it was and kicked off basically what, 20 straight years of Star Trek series? When did Enterprise end?
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I love that melodramatic '80s voiceover: "Staaar Trek, the Next Generation".
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Ernie Anderson was the STNG ad voice (heard here) - he was also the voice of ABC for years, and the Svengoolie actor
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It’s Ghoulardi. Anderson is a local legend here. Sometimes I’ll announce that it’s Friday in his voice, though adding “on TV Five” doesn’t make any sense to anyone but me
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Neito posted:Considering the fan backlash and the uhhhhhhh.... quality of the first few seasons, it's surprising that this show is the classic it was and kicked off basically what, 20 straight years of Star Trek series? When did Enterprise end? I was 9 and I was *heavily* enthusiastic about that show; and I didn't even like TOS and thought the cartoon was boring.
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Neito posted:Considering the fan backlash and the uhhhhhhh.... quality of the first few seasons, it's surprising that this show is the classic it was and kicked off basically what, 20 straight years of Star Trek series? When did Enterprise end? I still remember the first time I saw the main cast of ST:TNG. My first thought was "There's a Klingon on the Enterprise? And he serves on THE BRIDGE???"
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My family used to all gather around and watch TNG as a family in the living room. The only room with a TV. As far as I know, my parents have never seen any of the other Star Trek series.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:My family used to all gather around and watch TNG as a family in the living room. The only room with a TV. As far as I know, my parents have never seen any of the other Star Trek series.
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TNG was in first run syndication instead of on a network so airtimes were entirely dependent on the whims of which station got it and if they had to schedule around their network commitments. I think the earliest they were allowed to run a new episode was 7:00 monday
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shame on an IGA posted:TNG was in first run syndication instead of on a network so airtimes were entirely dependent on the whims of which station got it and if they had to schedule around their network commitments. I think the earliest they were allowed to run a new episode was 7:00 monday There's some retro nostalgia in some slice-of-live movie about a dweeb working at one of these networks using his job to be king poo poo on some TNG BBS
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A friend of mine won concert tickets off the radio and asked me to go with her, so I went and saw Squeeze and Psychedelic Furs last night. Talk about a time warp. FYI if you liked these bands and they come through your town, go see them. They sounded fantastic.
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Syndicated shows themselves are up there as a relic of the past. All that's left are a few game shows (Jeopardy and Wheel obviously the big two) and some talk shows, yeah? But they late 80s/early 90s heydey of syndicated dramas like TNG and DS9, Babylon 5, Renegade, Forever Knight, etc... are long gone.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Syndicated shows themselves are up there as a relic of the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-run_syndication_in_the_United_States,_2000s#Scripted_series_2 It's basically talk shows, game shows, and court stuff as far stuff that's currently running, although in the 90s it also includes Baywatch.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Syndicated shows themselves are up there as a relic of the past. Those game shows are super not syndicated In the US at least
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Was it early on Sunday night, right after the Simpsons? ..maybe? I don't remember.
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maybealabia posted:Those game shows are super not syndicated Yes, they are. You are incorrect on this.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Yes, they are. You are incorrect on this. Oh poo poo, I definitely just learned a thing. I really thought those were network flagship shows Huh I'd like to buy a foul
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I learned more about integrity from Jean-Luc Picard than I learned from my family, religion, or culture. I'm heartbroken by how badly the new Picard show missed the mark on that character. But anyway, TNG just feels like a completely 90's phenomenon, even though it was over by the middle of the decade.
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