Jain Cyber Cafe

Salim Shamsi

The first online café in South Korea calledElectronic Café opened in front of Hongik University in March 1988 by Ahn Sang-Su and Keum Nuri in Seoul. It had two 16bit computers connected to Online servicenetworks through telephone lines. Online service users’ offline meetings were held in the Electronic Café, which served as a place that connected online and offline activities. The opening of the online café in Korea was 2–3 years ahead of other countries.[1] The online café phenomenon in the United States was started in July 1991 by Wayne Gregori in San Francisco when he beganSFnet Coffeehouse Network. Gregori designed, built and installed 25 coin-operated computer terminals in coffeehousesthroughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The café terminals dialed into a 32 line Bulletin Board System that offered an array of electronic services including FIDOnet mail and, in 1992, Internet mail[2] being the first company to introduce internet access (email only) in a public venue. Alternatively referred to as an Internet cafe, PC bangs, or Net cafe. Cybercafe is a place to use computers to access the Internet, play games, create documents, chat with friends using voice and video, as well as other computer-related tasks. At most Internet cafes the computer and Internet access is provided for an hourly or daily fee. The cybercafe first came into existence in July 1991 in San Francisco, when Wayne Gregori started up the SFnet Coffeehouse Network. He built and set up 25 coin operated computer stations in multiple coffeehouses in San Francisco. The Binary Cafe was the first cybercafe in Canada, started up in June 1994. Today, there are thousands of cybercafes all over the world, providing the computer and Internet access that people need to go about their daily lives.

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