Cyber café
A cyber café is a shop where you paid by the hour to use a computer and the internet, and in the 2000s it was where many people first went online.
Era: 2000s
What it was like
First email accounts, chatting on messengers, checking exam results or filling in forms all happened here, at computers in small booths.
You kept one eye on the clock, because every minute cost money.
Questions
- How did cyber cafés charge?
- Usually by the hour or half-hour, paid when your time was up.