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What is an internet cafe?

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What is an internet cafe?

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Internet Cafe’s provide public internet access for a fee, usually depending upon the amount of time you use the service. They are typically set up in a retail shop space and may also actually serve coffee. Some are set up in other spaces, above main street shops for example. Some are not cafes as such, and may be business service centres or a convenience store with a couple of PC’s stuck in a corner. • What is the history of the internet cafe? The entry for Internet Cafes at Wikipedia describes a weekend arts event in London in 1994, for which a fellow, Ivan Pope, was commissioned to develop an internet concept. Thus the Cybercafe was born. • What is the purpose of an internet cafe? To make money. Well, it is a business is it not? As a business, it’s service is the provision of internet access to the public. From the customer’s point of view, the purpose was largely the access to email in the beginning and web browsing as well. The web browsing was often at speeds that couldn’t be achi

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An Internet café serves up a bank of computers with high-speed Internet access for public consumption. The customer gets charged by the minute or the hour, or might purchase a monthly pass. The Internet café might also serve food and beverages, but this isn’t always the case. These cafés peaked in popularity in the United States between 1995 and 2000, but have mostly been replaced by WiFi cafés. One breed of Internet café that persists to a lesser degree is geared towards multi-player gaming, but generally cafés were intended for surfing the Net. That could mean collecting email, doing research, or just cruising the World Wide Web. Those who don’t have computers at home are obvious potential customers for an Internet café, while others might have computers but lack high-speed Internet access. It may be a lot quicker, for example, to download software or multimedia files onto a memory stick using an Internet café computer, than to sit for elongated periods of time in front of a dial-up

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