INTERNET CAFE

Internet Service history began with the opening of the first Internet cafe, Cafe Cyberia, London (United Kingdom) on 1 September 1994.

The founder of the Internet, Eva Pascoe, working on his PhD at the time.

She got the idea to drink coffee mixture to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop near the City University of London.

Cafe Cyberia began with a dozen HP computers connected to Internet via dial-up modems were able to transfer data at 9.6 kilobits per second.

As Internet Cafe Cyberia has enormous resonance, and further investment in the company of people like Mick Jagger and Maurice Saatchi.

With the success of Cafe Cyberia, the Internet Cafe business went into a flying start and had more than 60 similar cafes around the world in summer 1995.

Ms. Pascoe sold its stake in Cafe Cyberia (Three investors from Korea) in 1998 and moved to another field shaping business online, online clothing store.

If you feel nostalgic, you can still find the original Cyberia Cafe West End of London, in Whitfield Street, behind Goodge Street station. However, the coffee was renamed to "Be the Reds" by the new owners of Korea ( "Be the Reds" is a pleasure to support the South Korea national football team).

Internet Cafe History - United States

Although the Internet connection was released in Europe, there has been a similar activity in the U.S. already, even before the launch of Cafe Cyberia.

Sfnet that started in San Francisco in 1991 (initially as a bulletin board), it was an internet cafe, but rather a network of 20 computers that operate with coins provide a dial-up connection to the Internet with a modem at 2400 baud.

The first real American Internet service provider (according to a 1995 Wall Street Journal) was a Chicago cafe called Suba Internet Center, which was launched in April 1995 by Todd Bode Stein and Alex Strasheim.

Suba was located at 2945 N. Broadway in Chicago, and was sold to Bean.Net in 2000 by the founders.

History Internet Cafe 1995 - 1999

Of the dozens of Internet cafes in the middle of 1995, expanded the industry thousands in 1997.

Internet cafes were not only a natural way for travelers to send and check email, but also a way in which local residents had access to the latest software applications.

With the continued success of electronic commerce and related areas, high profile entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his firm went into business easyGroup Internet cafes in 1999 with Easy Internet Cafe franchises.

In 2005, Easy Internet Cafe has become the most popular and successful Internet café franchise in the world.

Story of the Internet Cafe 2000 - Today

In the U.S., including the bursting of the Internet bubble in late 2000, the Internet Cafe industry at night as new sources of venture capital has almost disappeared.

Also, the growing success of laptops and WiFi Internet access, combined with the fact that more and more people had access to the Internet at home, resulted in fewer customers Internet cafes.

But, as a dynamic industry, many new cafes and many old began offering services a bit more concrete than just coffee and computers to attract new customers.

For example, some Internet cafes began offering services primarily to the players (and still do).

Typically, these coffee offers the latest computer games in state of the art equipment.

The success of the games on broadband networks brought the concept of LAN parties to these Internet cafes, and sports tournaments gambling connections via broadband.

In late 2002, the Internet cafes Internet gaming has become a huge hit worldwide.

For example, according to some estimates, there were more than 4,000 Internet cafes in Taiwan in 2002, most of them focusing on the supply of games.

In South Korea, the explosion of the PC (the name of South Korean Internet gaming cafes) industry for the first time that in the 1990s.

Recently it was estimated that over 22,000 PC Bangs (the name on the internet gaming cafes in South Korea) in South Korea in early 2006.

In January 2006, Intel global manufacturer of computer chips, made a new milestone in the history of Internet service by opening an operation of the PC 120 PC-Bang in Nowon-gu, northern Seoul, South Korea.

But as many internet cafes in some countries become advanced gaming or business centers, the original idea cafe (providing basic Internet access) is still a growth story in large parts of the world.

India, for example, has more than 50,000 Internet cafes with more than 500,000 customers each month, according to some estimates. A single Indian company, Sify Limited, trading franchise iWay ISP has more than 3100 internet cafes in 149 cities in India.

An important milestone in the history of the Internet Service has been the introduction of Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards issued in September 2004, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the cafe industry.