Internet Cafe Guide - news jan 98 #2
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Aspen cab got a lot to offer
Aspen Taxi picture In Aspen, Colorado, you can get connected in the taxi. That is, if you get Jon Barnes' cab.

Here is his own description of the Taxi:

"Hi, I'm Jon Barnes. Welcome To The World Famous Ultimate Taxi In Aspen, Colorado. The Ultimate Taxi Is The Only Recording Studio, Theater, Nightclub, Planetarium, Toy store, Internet Connected Taxi On The Planet... Connected Via A 500,000 Bit Per Second High-Speed Wireless Radio Connection !! "

At the web-site you can take a closer look, and if you are really curious, you can have a look in the back seat to see who is paying for the ride right now, by visiting the web cam in the cab!

If you are going to Aspen, just call 9 7 0 - 9 2 7 - 9 2 3 9, and Barnes will pick you up.

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The complete isolation
Maybe you want the complete isolation from Sex-scandals in the White House and 25 emails a day in your vacations.

Why not? In Mexico, Villa Montana Hilltop Beach Hideaway" La Manzanilla, Jalisco are among the "unplugged" hideaways if your wrist is tired of the mouse, and your eyes are red from watching TV.

Visit their site at http://wwte.com/mexico/montana

Price for visitor #50,000
Since the humble start in february -97 42,250 surfers has been counted at the front page of the web-site http://www.netcafeguide.com. Surfer # 50.000 is scheduled to arrive in the end of february, but if the visitors keeps comming in larger numbers every week, and new promotion succede, it may come earlier.

A prize will be given to the person who gets the 50,000 digit on the counter of our main navigation page index.htm

What the prize will be, we haven't decided yet - but it will be a small gift to one of our visitors. Rules etc. will be announced at the navigation page when the counter gets closer.

New cafés in Asia
A lot of the new cafés listed the past month is cafés in Asia. In India the number of cafés listed are the double of what it was in december and are now 11.

80 cafés outside Japan, 87 in Japan. Thailand is listed with 15 cybercafes, and the small island state of Fiji are also listed with one internet cafe.