Why did internet cafes die?
>>109165934computers were expensiveI got a brand new laptop with 20 hour battery life for 25 euro yesterday
>come up with thing>slap thing with fast food>thing doesn't sell/do well>its thing's fault it failLiterally and unironically burgers.
>>109165934people got kicked out for gooning to porn, so we said fuck it, bought a PC and did it at home
I think cause everyone has their own devices and service now.And like in general, lan games / user hosted servers stopped being produced unfortunately.
>>109165934They still exist, just not as common in the first world anymore since we now have our own PCs.
>>109166121Do they exist in small rural towns in the US or yurop?
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>>109165934I'm sure it was because of a bunch of white guys
>>109165934Advent and wise adoption of PCs in households. However, they are still very much alive in Japan
>>109166140In the US they are more the novelty of the shop. No idea on the west side of euroinferno land. East side probably has some for the traditional reason. Sure there are lots in asia and africa though.
They're alive and well in countries without a certain demographic, but I won't spoil which one that is.
>>109166140not since the 2000s. we previously had a "game cafe" in town but it closed up in 2009 or so.
>>109165934There's one in my town. It's right by a government office that insists you bring a bazillion paper copis of some documents, so everyone just logs in, finds the shit and print it while they try to upsell you some expensive coffee.
post internet cafes
>>109166192It's the Welsh, isn't it? Those god damned sheep fuckers.
>>109165934smart phones, duh
>>109166201kek'd at the story and then at the picyou're a good Anon, I wish you well
>>109166424Glad I could help. Have a nice day.
>>109166175>Advent and wise adoption of PCs in households.life was better before this and before smart phones.
>>109165934Man, back when getting to go on the internet forums once a week was a treat, what a time!
>>109165934What's the point if I can't even install arch on it?
>>109166940we can never go back
They did?
>>109167003Why would you go to an internet cafe to install an operating system on someone else's computer? Are you losing your shit?
>>109165934Look at those hairlines lol
Why did the 1990s die
>>109165934>Why did internet cafes die?browns, no one want to emter the same places as jeets and arab immigrants
with how much PC prices are skyrocketing, they might actually make a comeback
>>109167109his whole point is that he wouldn't, because he couldn't do what he wants. read, nigger.
>>109165934>shittops>phones>people have 10 homeYou still hear gooks and SEAmonkeys at internet cafes who leave their mics open when playing CS tho. I guess they're alive and well down there. Dunno if they're having a 30min break or simply don't have PCs at home.It was just a fun 'miniLAN' environment 20 years ago, loud idiot teens playing vidya, without the mess of 'who hosts' and 'how do we transport our rigs'.
>>109167123Least obsessed /pol/ette.
>>109167129Why even pretend to be someone else? Are you retarded?
>>109167288>minilan with local people you know: bad>steam matchups with random subhumans: good
Honestly its just pricing.>go play with a friend, it was quite fun shooting the shit IRL between queueing up>25 euros for like 3 hours of gaming PER PERSON without the drink >they literally had something like 20 computers OUT OF 200+ occupied on a Saturday afternoonyeah, nevermind. I now play badminton/tennis/squash every weekend for 20 euros/hour (split into two)
>>109165934All three are on American Online talking an 18 year old in Cali.
Never went to the local cafe too expensive. We hauled computers around to garages for LANs. Affordable.
Libraries offered the same experience for free.
>>109165934as soon as one 4chan type individual found them they bestenched the whole area and rendered it unusable for humans
>>109165934>>109166140They didn't die, they're still alive and well in Korea. They fill a third place role.
>>109166203This one's in Daegu.>>109167288It's a question of software support. Most games offer bonuses for playing from a PC cafe. Apartments are small too and nobody wants to listen to their SO/mom bitching at them for not cleaning up the house.
>>109166140Honestly, the public library has taken over this role in most US cities, apart from the smallest rural localities.
>>109169297Didn't mean to sage lol
>>109166203Where's the guy hanging from the ceiling?
>>109167354Yeah, because with friends you have to hold yourself back, but with randoms you can let your emotions run free.
>>109169357That was a lan part not an Internet cafe
>>109169285>>109166203so people in online games with names like 6788jfy873HJLK867x are actually from these net cafes?
>>109166140I lived through the entire internet era and can't recall ever seeing an internet cafe in a generic rural town. If they did exist, it would have been in a hipster town, probably with a notable university (eg Ithaca, NY or Hanover, NH). But not a town so small that the college was the only thing there (because then the college computer labs would satisfy the internet demand).If you were out and needed access to a PC with internet, the best option after a school computer lab was usually a public library (I used a few before the smartphone era). Some businesses like Staples, FedEx or drug stores might have computers that would let you do some limited things like print documents. Some of those had internet access, some didn't. Either way, they weren't the kind of computers you could get away with playing Starcraft on for hours.
Lot of the posts in this thread is clearly written by literal children. Fuck you, retards.
>>109165945A Chinese child died to make you this laptop.
>>109165934Those public computers were nasty as shit, they never cleaned out the keyboards
>>109169553Jesus, I can't stop winning!
>>109165934>computers in a burger kingImagine how greasy and nasty the keyboards must've been
>>109165934Too many off-jerkersToo many niggers
>>1091671229/11
>>109165934Home internet became widely available.
>>109169717and this is a very bad thing
>>109165934>charges you $15/hr to use a sticky keyboard >spend 25 minutes of that hour waiting on pages to loadgee i wonder why
>>109165945Hah that's crazy. Used I'm sure?
>>109169553Thank you for your service, comrade.
>>109165934Niggers. You think you can just have public access to a bunch of expensive electronic equipment in the US?
>>109165945Give it back Jamal.
>>109165945not only were computers expensive, so was fast internet. Back then home internet was dial up and the internet cafes had T1, which was 1Mb/s which was lightspeed compared to 56Kb/s, even with 24 computers at the same time. Then they also had CD burners at the cafe that can be used as long as you provided your own blanks, the early days had almost unlimited access to the computer with kazaa and limewire access so pirating soundtracks and vcds at the cafes was a thing.
>>109165934Expensive, noisy and smelly, only a few locations around town, all their shit was constantly out of date.In burgerland, a number of things caused the death of internet cafes:- home PCs became faster and cheaper every year for a very long time - burgerland apartments and homes are in general much larger than their asian equivalents, giving people enough room for a good home computer- widespread availability of broadband internet at home- widespread availability of laptops and phones with broadband internet access- availability of low/no cost porn and other online media that you'd want to consume somewhere private
People have computers in their pockets where they can play gachas.I had a PC at home but went to a small one with friends around 2008 to 2012 to play some tf2 with them in person. Mostly we just played mtg there. The 2 owners were just fun neckbeards who did it as a hobby.I remember in like 2015 or something they had a box of new phyrexia on the shelf and said "hey, if you crack that, I'd buy a few packs""I'm not cracking that just for a few packs""I'll buy 3, he'll buy 3, she'll buy 3, he'll buy 3, you know or other friend would buy at least 6"Some other dude nearby "I'd buy 3"Owner behind the counter rolls his eyes, picks it up off the high shelf and tears it open.It sold out in less than a week.It had fucking nothing on value in it.Owner gave us a good price though, so no one felt too bummed.
The best was around mid 00s when computer cafes leaned into gaming cafes, there's still one last big gaming cafe in my city but back then there used to be a dozen
>>109165934me
>>109170682were you growing up during that time? could you share more of that experience
>>109166201>no spaces, all lowercaseruins the punchline
>>109165934I used to go to the big city for raves overnight 20 years ago and would stay/sleep in an internet cafe for the few hours before the bus ride back home the next morning. Cheaper than a hotel, and nobody working there ever seemed to care if I fell asleep.
>>109167113>Look at those hairlines lolYet older people love to mock zoomers these days for going bald due to micro-plastics etc, kek.
>>109165934Because everyone has a fucking computer now. Why would you go to a cafe to use one?
>>109165934Internet cafes are just refular cafes these days.You bring a laptop or your phone and go on the wifi.
>>109165971There was an internet cafe within an indoor marketplace/bazaar near where I live. As you can expect, most used it for watching porno. Last time I went there was around 2010, and it was still operational, using CRTs as monitors. I'd also occasionally see anons watching Japanese anime porno at the library back in the day. Now it's mostly homeless people looking for some shade and somewhere to charge their phone, and gangbangers tagging up the monitors. I hate this shithole of a city...>>109166175Don't shine a black light on that lol--or the mats for a matter of fact.
>>109173157Hello resident of New Delhi
>>109165934Everyone has a computer in a pocket so there's no need for internet cafes, except for rural areas in countries with weaker infrastructure.
if the rent was cheaper, and people were slightly less degenerate, there would be more internet and or gaming cafes. i think it's mostly the rent issue.
>>109173863Yeah, but it could always be more powerful than your own.a cybercafe of 5090's would be cool.The reason we don't have one is pretty simple. Racist reasons. People don't want to get stabbed while they use a computer.
>>109174300that's partly true. the other problem is convincing a bank to finance it.
>>109169946Used, 90 charge cycles. Charger doesn't work.
>>109174373I'm assuming it's just to mess around on so it'd good enough
>>109166121Can't have this stuff around drug addicts/homeless, they'll steal or break it.
>>109174300>Yeah, but it could always be more powerful than your own.>a cybercafe of 5090's would be cool.The question is how many people actually need something more powerful than what they have?Answer: hardly anyone. My current desktop is 10 years old and easily does everything I want except run huge local LLM models.
>>109165934smartphones
>>109170635The library seems to manage
>>109176815Weird huh?
>>109176815pshh books iz lame
