[LINK] FW: RFI: 'The First Internet Cafe'

[Paul Koerbin]

This conference paper dated 1995 mentions Remo's in George Street Sydney and the Netcafe in St Kilda. 
http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-25488-20020625-0000-www.nla.gov.au/niac/meetings/npo95ca.html

The Netcafe in St Kilda may have had a website and although Wayback confirms a URL from August 2000 it provides no content. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ozonline.com.au/netcafe/


Scot Balson's News of the Day in March 1998 mentions the Hub Internet Café in Margaret Street Brisbane
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/Z1999-Jan-8/http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/198/1903.html


Paul


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From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 10:46 PM
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Subject: [LINK] RFI: 'The First Internet Cafe'

A while back, linkers assisted when I was trying to work out who were 
the first Internet ISPs in Oz:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzI04.html#CIAP

For my sins, I've had an enquiry about the first Internet cafe in Oz. 
(Well, in Sydney, but if we can get a very early mover anywhere, 
we'll have the year prettymuch nailed down).

This offers 'firsts' internationally in 1991/94/95/97:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_café

The Wikipedia article mentions Cyberia Cafe in London's West End, in 
1994, the significance being that it was run by an Australian:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080308202721/http://www.xs4all.nl/~sjongens/cyberia/

This undated claim falls over because there's no date, and the domain 
is no more:
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=1616
http://www.internet-cafe.org/cybernet

Any assistance with Australian early movers much appreciated!

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