01/01/1994
The concept of a café with full internet access was invented by Ivan Pope. Commissioned to develop an internet event for an arts weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, and inspired by the SFnet terminal based cafes, Pope wrote a proposal outlining the concept of a café with internet access from the tables.
The event was run over the weekend of 12–13 March 1994 during the 'Towards the Aesthetics of the Future' event.
The first commercially available internet cafes were also established in the same year in the UK, U.S., Canada and Finland