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A cybercafé is a combination of a café and a community Internet access point, building on the traditions of cafés, of computer professionals sitting at their terminals with coffee beside them, and the meeting of face-to-face meeting with modern electronic long-distance communication. Some are simply cybercafés; others have other aspects to them; for example, CB1 in Cambridge (UK) is also a second-hand bookshop, and there are also now some cyberpubs.
CyberCafés usually provide network accounts (user-names for you to log in with, so you can send and receive email under your own name), and also guest accounts for people to try out the Internet.
The staff at a cybercafé are generally knowledgeable about the Internet as well as about how it can be used in the setting of the society in which they live. If all the staff are busy, you can general find experience customers willing to help and advise, too!
Many large towns and cities now have CyberCafés and there are even companies opening branches in different towns rather than each being an independant enterprise.
Libraries are incresing providing internet access and a listing of UK public libraries offering Internet access is available on the EARLwebsite. This can be browsed by town or local authority.
While most cybercafés are fixtures in particular places and communities, temporary cybercaféss are becoming popular at events, notably including Christian ones such as the Christian Resources Exhibitions, the Rave in the Nave at Ely Cathedral, and Greenbelt.
Fixed cybercafés normally charge for computer and Internet access, event cybercafés often provide free access, being provided as part of the ambient facilities of the event, as, for example, they are at CRE.
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