(I took some pictures at New York, city of the cities, during our trip at NYC and I will write the picture stories of the trip in this series. Thanks!)
The inside view of this shopping market and Internet Café carries my remembrance to Thailand.
This kind of inside view of a shopping market is very similar to the latest shopping places in Thailand, especially the Shopping Malls (The Malls) in Bangkok.
This Internet Café (the second picture) is also similar to the Internet Cafes in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The prices in New York City cafes are much higher than in the cafes of Thailand.
When I was in Thailand, the highest price for 1-hour usage of Internet in an Internet Café was 60 bahts per hour and the lowest price (at the Internet Café of next to the Chiang Mai University) was 8 bahts per hour. The average price for Internet usage in the cafes in Thailand was 30 bahts per hour (slightly less than $1).
In this café, the price was set up as:
$3 for 15 Minutes (more than 90 bahts for 15 minutes)
$5 for 30 minutes (more than 150 bahts for 30 minutes)
$8 for 1 Hour (more than 240 bahts for 1 hour)
I remember that in 2001, when I learned how to send an email in an Internet Café where near to the Chiang Mai University, it was 10 bahts per hour (25 cents per hour).
Whatever and however it is, we all have to give our special thanks to those technologists for their innovations of those amazing and unbelievable technologies of our era.
Special Thanks!!
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