Net Cafe (TV series)

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Net Cafe (or Cheifet's Net Cafe, formerly The Internet Cafe) was a US television series documenting the internet boom of the late 1990s. It was broadcast from 1996 to 2002 and hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries. [1] The show was effectively a spin-off of the PBS series Computer Chronicles . [2]

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References

  1. Schell, Bernadette Hlubik (2007). The Internet And Society: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. pp. 283–. ISBN   9781598840315 . Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. "'COMPUTER CHRONICLES' ENDS AFTER 20 YEARS". San Jose Mercury News . December 12, 2002. p. 1C. Retrieved 15 February 2013.