Electronics retailer RadioShack filed for bankruptcy after 94 years in business, ultimately unable to keep up with consumers’ shift to the wireless and digital technologies of the internet age. Here is a timeline of RadioShack’s decline:

1962 : Retailer establishes a 40-year period of peace and prosperity among electronics retailers known as the Pax Radioica

: Retailer establishes a 40-year period of peace and prosperity among electronics retailers known as the Pax Radioica 1980 : As a joke, RadioShack employee asks customer buying game-TV switchbox for name and address. Practice lasts company-wide for another 22 years.

: As a joke, RadioShack employee asks customer buying game-TV switchbox for name and address. Practice lasts company-wide for another 22 years. 1995 : Poor microcassette harvest devastates first-quarter sales

: Poor microcassette harvest devastates first-quarter sales 1996-2005 : Company coasts by on purchase of single VGA cord from Fort Myers, FL location

: Company coasts by on purchase of single VGA cord from Fort Myers, FL location 1999 : RadioShack CEO assures Americans that products will break down regardless of Y2K

: RadioShack CEO assures Americans that products will break down regardless of Y2K 2001 : Company introduces cordless Howie Long

: Company introduces cordless Howie Long 2005 : Corporation celebrates one-millionth customer walking in, scoffing at cost, and walking out empty-handed

: Corporation celebrates one-millionth customer walking in, scoffing at cost, and walking out empty-handed 2007 : Email leaks reveal RadioShack in serious talks to buy pack of AA batteries from Duracell

: Email leaks reveal RadioShack in serious talks to buy pack of AA batteries from Duracell 2008 : Company loses lucrative Defense Department contract

: Company loses lucrative Defense Department contract 2010 : Executives hold press conference to address issue of what exactly is going on with that one aisle of just copper wire and cable splitters

: Executives hold press conference to address issue of what exactly is going on with that one aisle of just copper wire and cable splitters 2015: RadioShack management forced to euthanize millions of thumb drives they can no longer support