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The Binary Café was an internet cafe
Internet cafe

An internet caf? or cybercaf? is a place where one can use a computer with Internet access, most for a fee, usually per hour or minute; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month, etc....
 which operated on Yonge Street
Yonge Street

Yonge Street is a major arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its northern suburbs. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world, and is a national historic site....
 in Toronto, Ontario from approximately June 1994 through December 1994. It is significant in that it was Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
's first internet cafe. It was run by Steve Bernhardson and staffed by a handful of employees/volunteers.

The full name of the establishment was actually The Binary Café and Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal

In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen....
 Emporium, a name which reflected the two main components of the space -- serving food and drinks, and selling cyberpunk
Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low-life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk subculture and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coup...
-related books, magazines, and zines
Zine

A zine is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-publishing work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock....
.

Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 access was available through two unimpressive x86 computers, which shared a single






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The Binary Café was an internet cafe
Internet cafe

An internet caf? or cybercaf? is a place where one can use a computer with Internet access, most for a fee, usually per hour or minute; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month, etc....
 which operated on Yonge Street
Yonge Street

Yonge Street is a major arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its northern suburbs. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world, and is a national historic site....
 in Toronto, Ontario from approximately June 1994 through December 1994. It is significant in that it was Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
's first internet cafe. It was run by Steve Bernhardson and staffed by a handful of employees/volunteers.

The full name of the establishment was actually The Binary Café and Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal

In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen....
 Emporium, a name which reflected the two main components of the space -- serving food and drinks, and selling cyberpunk
Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low-life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk subculture and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coup...
-related books, magazines, and zines
Zine

A zine is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-publishing work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock....
.

Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 access was available through two unimpressive x86 computers, which shared a single telephone line for their PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol

In Computer network, the Point-to-Point Protocol, or PPP, is a Data Link Layer Protocol commonly used to establish a direct connection between two Node ....
 connection.

External links

  • -- a review of the café (1994 Sep 15)
  • -- a web memorial