Cafe@Boatquay, Boat Quay, Singapore, Earth

Nice Place, And Your Friends Can Watch You Too

by Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
written 20 Jun 1996

This article is classified "Real"


This Net Cafe is located at 82 Boat Quay in Singapore.  To find it, follow
the Boat Quay signs from the Raffles' Place MRT station, fight your way
past everyone trying to drag you into their bars and restaurants, then it's
almost at the end on the left. 

They have lots of PCs running Windows 95, with the main boxes hidden away 
in cupboards under the counter. They are happy to let you use the floppy 
drives if you want to upload or download mail from a remote account via
ftp.  They also have a video camera mounted on the wall, so that if your
net.friends are on-line they can watch you on the cafe Web site (at
http://mondrian.smedia.com.sg/).  Each machine seems to have its own 
camera attached but I didn't play with them at all.

Prices are quite cheap at S$10 (about $8) per hour, and food and drink 
prices are good for Singapore too.  The Net connection is very fast (128
kilobits per second or above, I guess), taking only a few seconds to
download my inbox from California.

See also:
  • Earth
  • Future Cafe, Hong Kong, China, Earth

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