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Welcome to TechNet Cafe @ Kuala Lumpur

Internet Cafe with a difference

Welcome to our TechNet Cafe - Internet Cafe with a difference! We are located in the busy Street Central of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Soon we will be opening our second branch located in the state of Johor Bahru town, southern part of the peninsula of West Malaysia.

Our Internet Café or Cybercafé is a place where every one is welcome to use a desktop computer with internet access, for a fee, either by hourly or a minimum of 30 minutes. Members can have unlimited access with a special membership pass on daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Just like any other regular Cafe, we too serve food and beverages as well.

Other Services include Digital Photo Printing, Document Scanning, Faxing, Printing, International Direct Dialing (IDD) and Burning of CDs and DVDs.

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BACKGROUND HISTORY OF INTERNET CAFE

Did you know how Internet Cafe or Cyber Cafe come about in this world and who was the person invented it?

The concept and name, Cyber Café, was invented in early 1994 by a person name Ivan Pope. He was commissioned to develop an Internet Weekend Arts Event held over the weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Arts located in Central London. Ivan Pope presented a proposal outlining the concept of a Coffee Shop with Internet Connectivity using several desktop computers placed on the tables for people visiting the Coffee Shop to use for browsing internet, check emails etc. The event took place over the weekend in the middle of March 1994 for two consecutive days beginning 12 and ended on the 13 of March 1994.

Around June 1994, Canadian first Internet Cafe was opened in Toronto, Canada known as Binary Cafe. Two months later in August 1994 an American man name Jeff Anderson opened his first American Cyber Cafe in Dallas, Texas USA known as High Tech Cafe and later followed by another two Internet Cafe in the New York City and East Village in beginning of 1995.