His school fought kids skipping class for internet cafés by building one on campus
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-09-20
Reminiscing about the era when Age of Empires, StarCraft, EverQuest and Counter-Strike were so popular that high schoolers skipped class for internet cafés, the author shares his school's unusual solution: it built an internet café on campus, managed by students, so teachers always knew exactly where to find them.
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