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Stylish new Internet café uses iMacs

updated 11:15 am EDT, Sat September 15, 2001

 
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Neighborhood Nerve Center highlights a stylish new Internet café in San Francisco (corner of Fulton and Divisadero), which utilizes 12 iMacs--connected via AirPort--as well as a variety of other multimedia tools and software, including iMovie, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and Dreamweaver. Cost is only $2 for unlimited access. However, MacNN reader Mike Kauffmann had some comments after his visit:

I went to that "Neighborhood Nerve Center" on Divisidero in San Francisco last Monday (9/10) to see wahat it was like. It's a dump. There was trash on the floor and looked like a wild 15-year-old's bedroom. Thanks, but no thanks. The Red Roaster needs a "Mom" to clean up after these people. I'm surprised Apple would tout this place on their website. [updated]


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    Funky

    This café is pretty funky :) I like the flowers on the wall that tout Airport bases.

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    Better yet...

    "I went to that "Neighborhood Nerve Center" on Divisidero in San Francisco last Monday (9/10) to see wahat it was like. It's a dump. There was trash on the floor and looked like a wild 15-year-old's bedroom. Thanks, but no thanks. The Red Roaster needs a "Mom" to clean up after these people. I'm surprised Apple would tout this place on their website. [updated]"

    Balderdash! Their Moms don't live there. Nor should Moms or Dads allow their miscreant progeny to behave with reckless disregard towards establishments or their own homes. Better for the establishment to kick the little offending brats "OUT" and only allow them to return when they can display the necessary citizenship skills to participate.

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    Messy

    And how is the "trash on the floor" any different from the trash all over the streets of downtown SF? SF is a great city but there is a lot of litter downtown. I still like to visit every few years though.

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    Cool!

    Only in San Fran! What a cool cafe. Of course it offends the sensibilities of the establishment, that's the whole point of it! If you want a sterile environment to work in, then stay at home.

    I've been to SF once, and I can't wait to return. If it wasn't for the high cost of living, I'd move there. The people are so dead cool and open minded, posessing an anything goes attitude fertile to creativity and acceptance. People can be themselves without being concerned of "establishment" creatures beating the c*** out of them. :P

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    Yeah but

    Yeah, but they accomplish that by living in filth that nobody sane would want to live in. A couple of months ago a San Francisco paper ran an editorial indicating that they are "starting to have a homeless problem." Starting! STARTING??? They've had one for years -- and are just now noticing it! I guess you can have all the freedom you want if you're willing to put up with the continual smell of urine.

    I used to look forward to going to San Francisco once a year. But that was when I lived in the Detroit metro area. A week away from Detroit is bliss, it hardly matters where you're going. Now I live in Seattle and I find I'm much less impressed with San Francisco than I used to be.

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    SF

    I've been to SF once, and I can't wait to return. If it wasn't for the high cost of living, I'd move there. The people are so dead cool and open minded, posessing an anything goes attitude fertile to creativity and acceptance.

    Especially nice is handing dollar bills out the wiondow of your car at every light to the endless stream of homeless people.

    San Francisco is very accepting of homelessness. Homelessness happens, doesn't stunt their "creativity" nonce after the conscience is salved.

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    Seattle

    I used to look forward to going to San Francisco once a year. But that was when I lived in the Detroit metro area. A week away from Detroit is bliss, it hardly matters where you're going. Now I live in Seattle and I find I'm much less impressed with San Francisco than I used to be.

    Seattle is nice, if you can avoid from the lines of people waiting for their methadone down by the Amtrak station.

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    You people sound very isolated and naive. ALL cities have homeless problems, and virtually all cities have methadone clinics. The beauty of cities like San Fran and Seatle is that they are so accepting and open minded. I've been to both Seattle and San fran, and both cities are quite clean, with no more homeless people than other cities I've been to. Both cities have thriving art scenes and rich cultural diversity. And both cities are hotbeds of creativity for arts and music.

    Just because they don't conform to your sanitized suburbs, doesn't mean that they don't have anything to offer.

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    CITIES

    I happen to live in the best of all big cities: NYC, in the borough of Manhattan. (I DARE YOU TO SLAM NYC now). I have relatives in SF and have had for decades, SF is a wonderful place that I visit many times every year and is nearly spotlessly clean especially in comparison to NYC on its best pre-disaster day. Matter of fact, I will be travelling to SF at the end of this month... fear airtravel? NOT A CHANCE. Seattle? Too much rain, lovely city.

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    internet café

    I have been working on a concept for a couple of years a little like the café described in this piece. My idea focuses on education and social interaction (community). The location would have all of the technology someone could use to create. For all of the technology offered (like digital video cameras and editing) there would be courses and workshops offered to help you get the most out of the technology. In the evenings, there would be social events where technology is the accessory to whatever is going on that night.

    I am currently looking for funding, it has been difficult with the tech backlash. I am focusing on smaller areas that have creative, and growing technology communities with colleges or universities nearby. These areas have a greater need for technology education and services. The idea is to open these in similar locations all over the country (eventually), establishing a unique network for social interaction and collaboration on creative projects.

    If anyone is interested in hearing more, or knows someone who might be, please email me at jbradley@mind.net. I believe that this is the next evolution of technology, bringing the people together who use it, to learn and collaborate. Plus it is all mac based, so it is great exposure for the platform.

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