I always like walking past this building by Deptford bridge, and thinking about the time when internet cafes were everywhere and now pretty much unheard of. What other formerly common places are no longer with us?

by pazhalsta1

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  1. Would be a great youtube history series if someone went into detail 1 by 1 on innocuous buildings (rather than those like surveys of many forgotten tube stations on whatever)

  2. Still blows my mind that some internet cafes in London are still open

  4. Remember EasyEverything on Tottenham Court Road? Megainternet cafe with loads of PCs you would book by time used. Felt like the future lol

  5. I have nothing to add except to say this is an amazing picture

  6. I’m flabbergasted this hasn’t been turned into flats. Someone owns this building, and they’ve done nothing with it. In London!

  7. Absolutely insane that buildings are allowed to be kept in that condition

  8. Looks like a set from a horror movie called Dial Up. Yes says a figure from the depths of the shop we’re on a different Internet here hahaha

  13. Something tells me this building doesn’t actually have the Internet Access it claims to…

  15. Christ! I used to go to 2 internet cafes in Deptford in the late 90s when I was job hunting. 

    I recall that the guy that worked in one of them would go to the pc after your finished and go thru your browsing history. This was way before incognito mode 🙁

    His coffee was too milky and cold too.

  16. I always notice this building whenever I go past it. Feels like a relic

  18. Wow, great share – highly dystopian image, that place really belongs in a film 👌

  19. Damn I knew exactly where this was without reading the description

  20. Wonder who owns it was there a fire at one point?

  23. Oh my gosh, I grew up around Deptford in the 2000s and it’s interesting that this building is still the same after so long!

  25. Whale oil and spat shops. Also zeppelin travel agencies.

  26. This is such an evocative photo – really captures that sense of fading infrastructure and times past. Internet cafes felt so modern once and now they’re historical relics. Reminds me of video rental shops or those independent bookstores that used to be on every high street.

  27. I love that window in the top left, it looks like it’s actually mounted at that angle with the gaps filled in

  30. The IT equivalent of a white van with “free candy” on the side.

  31. Oh my gosh, first time on this sub that I’ve immediately recognised a place! I used to walk past this so often some years ago, and I’ve always wondered why it looks so damaged, almost dilapidated and why it’s not been gobbled up by a developer and redone into a bunch of matchbox sized flats yet!

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