Wired Cyber Café and Network Gaming Centre, Cottingham Road, Hull By Starpaw.

The world is turning digital, it's true. WAP mobile phones, digital televisions and palmtops, the works. Computers are here to stay and the net is playing an even larger role in our everyday lives. Once the domain of geeks and computer fanatic's, cyber space is becoming the place to be.

You're not anybody unless you have a yahoo.co.uk or a hotmail.com after your name. So for those still fearing the old beige box or not quite ready to commit to their own computer, Wired is here to help you dip your toe in those cyber waters. Literally out of the rubble and ruins of another failed glorified tat shop appears Wired, Hulls newest Cyber café.

This is how you imagine a cyber café should look; a grungy cyber punk atmosphere with the arty UV sheet sculptures yet at the same time stylish and classy, combining the best of coffee house culture and contemporary cyber café technology. Black and chrome with flattened out car tyres below the front counter and along parts of the walls.

Okay so it looks fantastic, but it's the computers we want to know about. Well, Wired has about 12 terminals so you'll usually be able to get in front of a monitor without much trouble. Access to the floppy drive is available to save smaller documents and for a small charge you can have your files backed up onto a shiny CDR.

Word processing software and printers are available for those important documents or for any panicky students realising just how late that assignment is! continued below

Wired Cyber Café and Network Gaming Centre, Cottingham Road, Hull continued By Starpaw.

Prices are very reasonable, ranging from £2 for an hour, £3 for two hours and pretty much any amount of time in between for just a quick surf. At the moment smaller food items such as chocolates bars, coffee and soft drinks are available, but plans are a foot to offer a wider, more varied menu in the very near future to offer customers salads, sandwiches and such.

So if you want to grab a few bites to eat and check your mail then kill two birds with one digital stone and drop into Wired to check out what all this Internet lark is all about. links: Wired Cyber café Website Email wired@trutechweb.co.uk

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