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Café and coffee house owners have given us a priceless gift. We can now write, study, research, or idly surf the Net in a home away from home… accompanied by eclectic music and a delicious caffeinated beverage in hand.
 
For the last decade, it has been a common scene to walk into the local coffee place and see several people snuggled up with their laptops in corner tables or on big, comfy couches. Now, Internet has been thrown into the mix, and you don’t even need a cable or an outlet. At first, there were only exclusive cafes that offered wireless Internet. A brilliant marketing idea—one monthly internet bill that pays for itself ten times over by the quadrupling business! The corporate coffee chains quickly honed in on the idea, when Mom and Pop began to siphon off some of their Internet-seeking regulars, but they made a grave error. Their wireless is not free! Oh sure, the airwaves ricocheting around their trendy jazz-filled walls are free—but when you go online, you must sign up for a paid plan to use them, from a major wireless company that the corporate coffee chain is in bed with. That’s okay—it’s all good. This article is about the magic of wireless cafés, free or otherwise.

 

This Age of Information perk has afforded me, as a writer, the ability to do research on my novel as I write in a public place. In the past, I would scrawl out a to-do list: Find out what a popular song was in 1996, Find out the name of a passenger train between the Midwest and the East coast, what are the names of the coastal towns one would pass through traveling on Highway 1 in California? All of this would have to wait until I got home, and I’d have to leave bookmarks in the story where the answers would complete the paragraphs. Now, I just switch windows, find out, and put everything in place before moving on.

 

I might also want to ask my good friend in New York (who is known for his impeccable researching skills) for some information that I cannot find myself (or am too lazy to find myself), and with my wireless I can now jump onto an instant messaging window and ask him. It also gives me a chance to say hello to him and find out what he’s up to.

 

The possibilities are endless.

 

I look around my personal favorite wireless café as I write this (The Coffee Cat in Santa Barbara, California) and I see students doing their homework, people listening to Internet radio streams while working on business documents, a woman planning her wedding and looking up reception halls online, and I’m pretty sure the girl on the next level is using an interactive graphic design website to complete her own designs. So many variations… it’s beautiful to behold.

 

There is only one drawback to this new trend. People tend to sit in their own respective wireless bubbles, oblivious of everyone around them and doing very little social interaction. And isn’t that why one goes out? To socialize and be around others, and to possibly forge new relationships? Perhaps. But this is where that “home away from home” factor comes in.

 

A wife and mother may just be escaping her noisy household for a precious two hours, to get her work done or have the Internet to herself. A student who needs to finish a term paper may feel that a quiet coffeehouse is more aesthetically rewarding than his rank, noisy dorm room or the sterile library. For writers like myself, the people watching, music and coffee lend themselves nicely to staying focused and feeding my creativity.

 

If you have not yet tried this simple pleasure in life, I highly recommend taking your laptop and visiting a wireless café. If you don’t have anything to work on, dial up www.randomville.com and treat yourself to a mocha latte and some of the finest reading on the Internet to date! *wink*

 

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