Given that today is Cyber Monday, it's only appropriate to take a moment to reflect on a prior time when "Cyber" was used a legitimate descriptor for Internet things. VICE has a great piece on Remembering Cyberia, The World's First Ever Cyber Cafe. I was unfamiliar with this London location that opened in 1994 and was sold off in 2001 but that's a fertile seven years to be an Internet cafe.

It's interesting to read the anecdotes about celebrities like David Bowie and Kylie Minogue but I'm equally as entertained by video pieces that show the space and the patrons. The 90's really were something else in the fashion realm.

I was too young to be visiting Internet cafes in 1994 and there really wasn't anything remotely resembling this sort of thing in rural Tennessee. Suffice to say, I appreciate they exist, particularly these early pioneers.