Net Cafe (TV Series)
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| Net Cafe Screenshot | |
| Format | Video (TV) |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Origin | USA |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | 1996-2002 |
| Running Time | 30 min |
| Production | |
| Created by | NA |
| Directed by | NA |
| Produced by | NA |
| Written by | NA |
| Screenplay by | NA |
| Distributed by | KTEH/PBS, APT |
| Narrated by | Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries |
| Starring | Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries |
| Music by | NA |
| Cinematography by | Phil Azzopardi, Ken Butler |
| Edited by | NA |
| Production Company | PCTV, Television Associates |
| Location(s) | Various |
| Original Channel | PBS |
| Additional Information | |
| Based on | NA |
| Topics | Technology, Computers, Hacking |
| Follows | NA |
| Precedes | NA |
| Associated Video | Computer Chronicles |
| Website | NA |
Net Cafe (Originally titled "The Internet Cafe", the title was changed after the first season) was the world's most widely distributed television series covering the Internet revolution during the height of the dot com boom. The series was broadcast throughout the United States and in more than one hundred other countries for six years, from 1996 through 2002. It was hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries.
The weekly program went behind the scenes of the World Wide Web to meet the people and explore the culture of the new "wired" generation. The series featured Internet tips, a guide to the best web sites, a preview of internet startups, and interviews with the movers and shakers behind the Internet phenomenon. It introduced many new web sites to the public which are now household names such as Yahoo!, Google, and eBay.
The series has been recognized for its journalistic excellence, winning a variety of prestigious broadcast awards. It was produced on location at various internet cafes around the Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Synopsis
Net Cafe was a widely distributed talk-show and educational program, aired from 1996 to 2002. It was produced for PBS (KTEH), but broadcast across the US and in over 100 other countries. Its topics ran the gamut of Internet content from computer hackers and sex-on-the-net, to computer gaming and on-line university courses. The Internet Cafe was an early example of a program that sought to do more than sensationalistically exploit the popularity of the new medium that was the World Wide Web. Although produced on the cheap for a local PBS station, it ended up being broadcast around the country and internationally.
Downloads
| Film | User | Format | Link | Notes |
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| Net Cafe (1996) | NA | MPEG2 | Archive.org |
