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Internet in the Philippines first became available on March 29, 1994, 10:18 a.m., with the Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connecting the country and its people to Sprint in the United States via a 64 kbit/s link. [1] [2] [3] As of February 2023, there are 85.16 million internet users in the country, where internet penetration stood at 73 ...
Internet café and library on the Golden Princess cruise ship (2011) Combination Internet café and sub post office in Münster, Germany. An Internet café, also known as a cybercafé, is a café (or a convenience store or a fully dedicated Internet access business) that provides the use of computers with high bandwidth Internet access on the payment of a fee.
A sweepstakes parlor (or sweepstakes café) is an establishment that gives away chances to win prizes with the purchase of a product or service, typically internet access or telephone cards. They began to appear in the Southern United States some time around 2005, and quickly proliferated. [1] Purchased entries are redeemed using computers at ...
The coffee pot, as displayed in XCoffee. The Trojan Room coffee pot was a coffee machine located in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England.Created in 1991 by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky, it was migrated from their laboratory network to the web in 1993, becoming the world's first webcam.
Eva Pascoe (born 1964) is a Polish-born internet entrepreneur and consultant residing in London who co-founded Britain's first internet cafe, Cyberia. She has previously written for The Independent newspaper and is a commentator on technology matters in the media and through her own blog. She was a key figure in introducing online shopping to ...
Net café refugees (ネットカフェ難民, netto kafe nanmin), also known as cyber-homeless (サイバーホームレス, saibā hōmuresu), are a class of homeless people in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleep in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés. [1] Although such cafés originally ...
EasyInternetcafé (styled as easyInternetcafé) was a chain of Internet cafés and a unit of Stelios Haji-Ioannou's EasyGroup.. It was Europe's largest chain of Internet cafés and was the holder of the record for the world's largest Internet café (as certified by Guinness World Records) with 800 terminals near New York's Times Square, opened by Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in ...
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.