TIME CAPSULEThe 2001 internet

Internet cafés,
city by city.

In 2001 we updated this site from internet cafes around the world. Below: a record of what each one cost, how fast it was, and whether we could plug in our laptop. A small slice of the early web.

📡 A note on the era. When we travelled in 2001, public Wi-Fi didn't exist. Smartphones didn't exist. To check email or update this website, we walked into "internet cafes" — rooms full of beige PCs running Windows 98, charging by the minute. The table below is exactly what we recorded then.

Country	City	Cost per Hour	Name Cafe'	FTP & Pop3	Connection / Speed	Laptop Accessibility
Greece	Athens	3.95 $		Yes	Good	Yes
	Chios	3 $		Yes	Good	Yes
Turkey	Istanbul	.91 $		No	Slow	No
	Kusadasi	1.80 $		Yes	Very Slow	Yes
	Goereme	1.36 $		Yes	Good	Yes
Syria	Damascus	2 $

Internet cafés,city by city.

Internet cafés,
city by city.