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Thursday 28 July 2011

Internet Cafes and a Century's Close: Some Things Change, Some Things Stay the Same

In what seems to be the long, long, long-ago era of the mid-to-late nineties, the internet cafe business was a huge deal. At the time, regular folks made the most unabashed use of dial-up modems and email correspondence, unbelievably, was still tinged with novelty. Oh, how the years and decades pass. "Sweepstakes  Internet cafe" still hadn't laid its claim within the urban street-stroller's lingo.

Since those end-of-century days, when Al Gore had yet to lose the presidency, win the Nobel, or endure a public scandal in the Clinton style, things have really swerved. Enter a well-connected cafe today and you'll find stuff like Internet cafe sweepstakes  software for games and prizes. Gore and his ilk (politicos, that is) liked to talk about the technological divide that bedeviled and unnecessarily stratified American society, but, today, people have learned to make quick work of the speediest Internet cable connections available and to tweet their diaries in micro-installments -- all that as they sit in public sweepstakes terminals.

And that's to really say nothing of Facebook, the current cultural hubbub of the local and global goings-on, or of the wired- and linked-up might of the most banal of personal portable devices. Which is to say that everything under the stars is online nowadays. The Queen of England no longer needs God to save her because she can consult with her iPad. (Even the Pope might come to consider issuing Mass by Twitter as he already has an account.) With such a fantastic availability of personal access to that once-sobriqueted "information super highway," does anyone still go out to Internet cafes? Yes. People visit them to gain access to sweepstakes games while others are so taken with the idea that they decide on starting an internet cafe of their own.
But prizes and games are not the end-all of cafe-owners' care. Much considered thought still goes into the exotic (or local) provenance of the coffee(s) served. There's also the matter of preparation method. The idea that's being attempted to be gotten at here is that whether you have a sweepstakes cafe or one that is more geared toward the tastes of the connoisseurs of the delicacies of the table, you'll need to stage your offerings in a manner that both delights and engages your customers.
Sam Walters is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her writing appears in print and online.

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