Full Night – The Best Romanian Internet Cafe [electronic resource].

Institute of Network Cultures 2024

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As is common with post communist countries, Western trends reach us 10 years later. After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the brutal transition to the free market, Romania was a bit late to the 90’s trend of Internet/Cyber Cafes. The 2000’s were instead the golden age for the Internet Cafe in Romania.  For a solid decade, every teenager could have cheap and reliable access to the World Wide Web and especially to the beast that was Counter Strike 1.6. But after ten strong years, internet cafes became extinct, almost overnight. Redditors along with old and new bloggers alike are now collectively grieving and reminiscing about the good old days of the 2000s, when the grass was greener and the internet cafes were the place to be. Yet somehow, somewhere, in the north-east side of the country, in a city bordering the Republic of Moldova, the Internet Cafe became something of a living fossil – thriving and surviving even today.
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