A small café or internet café, a casual establishment combining coffee service with internet access or computer terminals.
A blend of 'café' and 'net' (short for internet), created in the late 1990s to describe a new type of business that emerged with widespread internet adoption. The word reflects how English rapidly coins terms for novel cultural phenomena.
The cafenet was the bridge between two worlds—before smartphones, these places were where people discovered the internet for the first time while sipping espresso. Many internet cafés in developing countries were people's first access to the digital world!
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