YARON S BUTTERFIELD
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Internet Cafe

According to computer manager Yaron Butterfield, the twelve Pentium computers in the cafe have been doing an increasingly brisk business."
             - Canada Computers-BC Edition, Jun. 1996
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Vancouver's first 24 hr internet cafe - 1996

In 1995, I was working for an entertainment company where I took care of all advertising media and also built a database to store customer information and bookings  of our products.

One day I said to my boss, "we should get an email address."  He said, "yes good idea, but better yet, I want an internet cafe...and you're going to take care of that."


​Gulp! 
      
​And so I took a year off my university studies and jumped right into it...

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Net surfers and pinball wizards
Canada Computes 1996

TV picks up the story after we opened the cafe
CTV News 1996

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