387: Cyberia: Revisiting The Cyber Cafe with Eva Pascoe - The Retro Hour EP387

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

We chat with Eva Pascoe, co-founder of Cyberia, Britain's first internet cafe. We explore the birth of Cyberia, a 1994 innovation that transformed the digital world. Cyberia wasn't just a tech hub; it was a hotspot for celebrities like David Bowie, Kylie Minogue and Mick Jagger, and it was famed for their Sunday morning post-rave LAN parties and gaming basement.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's show, a bullfrog classic makes its way to the Commodore 64.
0:05.0	One of the 90s coolest gaming characters is back.
0:08.0	And we get the story of the first cyber cafe with Eva Pasco.
0:16.0	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our amazing friends
0:24.4	at Bitmap Books. Now, one of my favourite books that they've released in recent years is Commodore 64
0:29.4	a visual compendium, celebrating the best-selling home computer at the 80s, with some incredible
0:35.8	games, really bringing them to life in all of their
0:38.1	glorious 16-color grandeur. You can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming collection
0:43.0	at bitmapbooks.com. And with PCB way. Now, if you're working on a retro project right now,
0:50.3	you know they're big supporters of the retro community, and they offer so many services that could help you out, including custom PCB prototyping with low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, and they offer 3D printing and injection molding to get an instant quote for your project right now at PCBway.com.
1:09.5	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 387, your weekly dose of retro gaming
1:15.9	and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fox.
1:20.4	And very nice to be joining us for this week's show, of course, the podcast that every Friday
1:24.7	takes you back to the classic age of video games and explores vintage technology as well. Basically, if you know this sound, you'll be very at home here. Was that ICQ? It was Lemmings. You didn't know it, Ravi. Oh, was it ICQ? I thought it was Lemmings. That was ICQ? No, ICQ, yeah. I like this game. ICQ. I see. Well, that was a, did you ever use ICQ back in the day, you guys?
1:46.8	Oh, yeah.
1:47.2	I lived on ICQ.
1:48.9	It had this great feature of when you didn't have any internet friends,
1:52.6	you could actually find a friend locally and suddenly join.
1:57.0	And yeah, ICQ was actually one of the really early messaging services that worked really well,
2:02.7	you know, after IRC, of course.
2:05.7	I was trying to think of my number because they were quite critic.
2:08.7	I think it was like 195-844-96 might be my ICQ number.
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