I miss the old computer gaming places where you could buy time to play anything. I’ve been to ones that were a suite in a little strip mall and large free standing buildings. Almost all had some form of food and beverage. Bawls was the best drink at the time and counter strike and unreal tournament pretty much started most of it. Quake, StarCraft, Command and conquer, Diablo 2 all laid the ground work.
I’m glad this didn’t catch on. Could you imagine how much it would suck to try to take the family out to eat and everyone is just staring at a screen and surfing the…oh wait
A lot of people will never understand how amazing the internet was back then, even though it was much smaller in scope. The sense of discovery made it great, much better than having all this content pushed into our faces.
I used to go to Easy Internet Cafes in London in 1999. They were pretty decently priced as far as it went and owned by the same company that created EasyJet. Basically just used it to access email since I didn’t have a computer.
The Burger King closest to me growing up had two of the colorful iMac computers (one red and one blue) that had kids games on and I thought it was the coolest thing in the entire world
I remember Joy Internet in New Zealand, Botany Downs in Auckland. This was circa 2002? They used to have 24hr marathons and I did way too many of them as a 14 year old lol
Bet those keys were sticky
I miss the old computer gaming places where you could buy time to play anything. I’ve been to ones that were a suite in a little strip mall and large free standing buildings. Almost all had some form of food and beverage. Bawls was the best drink at the time and counter strike and unreal tournament pretty much started most of it. Quake, StarCraft, Command and conquer, Diablo 2 all laid the ground work.
I’m glad this didn’t catch on. Could you imagine how much it would suck to try to take the family out to eat and everyone is just staring at a screen and surfing the…oh wait
That’s pretty gross, really.
A lot of people will never understand how amazing the internet was back then, even though it was much smaller in scope. The sense of discovery made it great, much better than having all this content pushed into our faces.
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I used to go to Easy Internet Cafes in London in 1999. They were pretty decently priced as far as it went and owned by the same company that created EasyJet. Basically just used it to access email since I didn’t have a computer.
Hey kids, surf the Mooby-Net!!!
Some of you have never been to a LAN center and it shows lol
I never remember seeing this
I remember the McDonald’s by me had a N64 in the early 2000s. That controller was so sticky, could only imagine what the keyboard was like lol
Tf kind of Burger King was this
He’s looking up where the nearest Wendy’s is
Have it your way on the Information Super Highway.
r/MonitorTooHigh
All of this is disgusting, looks like you couldn’t Alta Vista how disgusting the average keyboard is.
Cristiano Rolando
Cool. Also, fuckin. Dialup.
You give me 60kb/s to this day i’m like holy fuck i’m flying.
Looks like he’s actually using Microsoft word.
This is no good, but I did really appreciate “internet cafes” when I was traveling Europe in 2006.
Never heard of this at all. And I’m probably the same age as this dude in the picture.
I’ve never seen a public internet cafe/computer lounge outside of libraries.
He asked for no tomato but…
The Burger King closest to me growing up had two of the colorful iMac computers (one red and one blue) that had kids games on and I thought it was the coolest thing in the entire world
Those keyboards must’ve been so damn filthy
I don’t recall seeing a BK like this
You meant WORLD WIDE WEB.
Internet Eh?
Petri restaurant
Bro hates tomatoes
Is that 1 order of fries!?
Someone, at some point, pulled up porn and starting going to town with their Whopper.
Internet cafes to check your email. Remember it well…
I know it looks gross now but they survived..
I remember Joy Internet in New Zealand, Botany Downs in Auckland. This was circa 2002? They used to have 24hr marathons and I did way too many of them as a 14 year old lol
Where?