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Iraq: Iraqis surge onto the web through Internet Cafes |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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“In the days of the former regime, there were only a few Internet cafes in hotels,” said the owner of “Centre Baghdad” cybercafe, who would be named only as Ali. “All of them were subject to monitoring and some websites were blocked,” he added. Today these restrictions are gone and Iraqis in their millions are using the Internet for chatting, doing research, dating, keeping abreast of current affairs and to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Hi5. Cybercafe owner Ali said most of those using his 16 PCs were young people aged between 17 and 35. “They mostly use Yahoo Messenger for chatting or checking their e-mails but some download antivirus updates or do research for their studies. “Our peak hours are from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm, but the cafe is open until 10:00 pm,” said Ali. Read more at The Times
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