A San Francisco laundromat may be one of the world's most unusual places to surf the Internet but a sleek club on Moscow's Red Square is definitely the sleekest, according to a Yahoo! survey of the globe's best cybercafes. The winners of the first Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards were published to mark the 10th anniversary of the world's first cybercafe in London's West End. In the past 10 years since London's Cafe Cyberia first opened its doors in 1994, about 20,000 Internet cafes have sprung up in 171 countries, according to Yahoo! Mail. “Although home and work Internet access is now very common, Internet cafes plays the same role as they did 10 years ago,”Eva Pascoe, a co-founder of Cafe Cyberia, said in a statement. “They are the post offices of the wired generation.”

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雅虎关于全球最佳网吧的调查显示，旧金山的一家自助洗衣店也许是世界上最不寻常的网吧之一，而位于莫斯科红场的时尚俱乐部绝对是世界上最时尚的网吧。公布第一届雅虎邮箱杯网吧奖的获奖名单，是为了纪念位于伦敦西区的世界上第一家网吧创立10周年。 根据雅虎邮件的调查，自伦敦网吧咖啡馆于1994年开张以来的10年间，在171个国家大约有2万个网吧如雨后春笋般出现。 “网吧咖啡馆”的联合创办人伊娃·帕斯库在声明中说，“尽管现在互联网在家庭和工作中已经很普遍了，网吧咖啡馆仍在扮演着和10年前同样的角色。”“它们是网络一代的邮局。”