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Though they were indeed pioneers, a simple Wikipedia search rebukes the claim of "world's first cybercafe":

> In March 1988, the 'Electronic Café' was opened near Hongik University in Seoul.

> In July 1991, the SFnet Coffeehouse Network was opened in San Francisco.

> The concept of a café with full Internet access (and the name Cybercafé) was invented in early 1994 by Ivan Pope. [...] Over the weekend of March 12–13 in the theatre at the ICA, Pope ran a Cybercafé

> In June 1994, The Binary Café, Canada's first Internet café, opened in Toronto,

> Internet café called Cyberia opened on September 1, 1994, in London, England.



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