The internet café turns 10

Time for a Rough Guide to the world's best

By Kelly Arnold, 31 August 2004 16:05

NEWS The world's best places to surf the web have been unveiled in the Yahoo! Mail Internet Café Awards, marking the 10-year anniversary of the first internet café.

Yahoo! and Rough Guide have joined forces to compile a special e-book of the world's best internet cafés, highlighting how much cafés have changed over their 10-year history.

The winners have been chosen by a judging panel including Eva Pascoe, co-founder of the world's first internet café, Café Cyberia. Showing that it is now possible to wash and go when you go and surf, they feature 'Brainwash', a laundromat/internet café in San Francisco.

The most remote cafe was found in Timbuktu, where it was used to provide news and information for the local community.

A special award was given to Ty Waunarlwydd, an internet café for senior citizens in Swansea, Wales.

Have you ever been to or do you still use a particularly innovative, interesting or just plain comfy internet café? We'd love to know - drop us an email at editorial@silicon.com.

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