The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Internet cafes find the price is right for wireless service " Way back in 1997, Internet cafes were all the rage. They offered decent coffee, acceptable pastries, a high-speed Internet connection and lots of desktop computers running Windows 95.
How times change. These days there are lots of coffee shops and restaurants where you can get high-speed Internet access. But now, even better, the Internet access is wireless — and it's free." (and we have a version of Windows that doesn't crash a couple times a day)