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Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe


Back in the 90s — before the internet was evil — Cyberia in London was a haven for pilled-up ravers, gamers, and Kylie Minogue alike.

“When an entire subculture — like a kid at a rave trying virtual reality for the first time — saw the wild potential of marrying the latest computer technologies with the most intimately held dreams and the most ancient spiritual truths.” Gary Barlow, then world-famous frontman of Take That, cynically rocks up for a photo opp at Cyberia in the 90sFollowing the 1994 The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which effectively outlawed the rave movement, Eva and her gang mucked in. We’d head down from the flat upstairs and people would rock up at six in the morning from the clubs around King’s Cross, smoking or taking God knows what while surfing online using some lateral thinking,” Eva remembers.

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