The funny thing is that the US has a considerably lower broadband
penetration than places like the Netherlands or Scandinavia. I suspect
that the large number of internet cafes in London and other big cities
in the UK is due to the large number of third world immigrants and
backpacking types who do not lug a laptop around.
Nathan
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On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Daniel Sepke wrote:
> As far as I can tell the Internet Café is non-existent in the US
> now. I know
> of none in the city I live in (Raleigh) and the last one I can
> recall seeing
> when travelling was actually at the coast. The one at the coast was
> promoting itself to those folks who didn't bring a laptop on
> holiday. What
> you do see a lot of over here is WiFi access availability at coffee
> shops
> (an unusual example is Panera Bread that apparently runs the largest
> private
> free access WiFi network in the US). By casual observation I can say
> that
> WiFi networks are very widely used by laptop owners. I was out the
> other day
> at a café and the number of people using laptops while they eat/drank
> outnumbered the non laptop using customers.
>
> I can say that the publicly accessible computers in our county library
> system are very heavily used by those who likely don't have broadband
> internet access at home. A relative of mine is a former librarian
> and she
> has many hilarious tales of policing those machines for publicly
> acceptable
> usage.
>
> In contrast to my US experience I was quite surprised to see
> straight up
> internet cafes when I went home to England last year. Maybe I am
> jaded (or
> possibly deluded) but it seemed so 1990's to me. Of course I am
> lucky enough
> to be in position to afford a laptop. Given the buy in point for
> laptop
> computers and their prevalence in the US environment the sight of
> ranks of
> desktop computers with users happily tapping away made me giggle a
> bit.
>
> I am not disputing the potential of the option to try and travel
> without a
> laptop by using true internet cafes to burn DVD backups; but I
> personally
> doubt it would work in the US as the required network of cafes just
> isn't
> there. I will say that in my experience I want to spend the least
> amount of
> time to do backups when traveling and the all in one nature of the
> Epson
> option is a very good fit for me.
>
> Dan S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jez Cunningham
> Subject: Re: [OM] Image Storage on the Road
>
> Don't confuse internet cafes with places that sell coffee (or what
> they
> purport to be coffee). They sell internet (and rent you a pc with a
> cd/dvd
> burner)Jez
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Hmmm. I guess that just shows that I've never been in an internet
>> cafe
>> (don't like Starbuck's coffee) and very, very rarely in a minilab.
>> Maybe I should get out more... but not to Starbuck's. :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>
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