Retsy Series 1 · Card 0626 · 90-HNG

Dial-Up Bean Cafe

Coffee by the cup. Internet by the hour.

A coffeehouse with four beige computers in the back, renting time on the internet by the half hour.

Card no.: 0626 of 1,280
Set: 90s Hangouts · 90-HNG
Year: 1998
Type: Internet coffeehouse
Found at: Downtown, across from the college
Cost back then: $3 per half hour

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Nostalgia8/10

Hype7/10

Weirdness6/10

Trade value6/10

The story · 1998

The story of Dial-Up Bean Cafe

The Bean had mismatched couches, chess sets and four beige towers in the back corner with a sign-up clipboard. You paid at the counter, waited for the dial-up shriek, and spent your thirty minutes in a chat room or printing song lyrics. College kids drank giant mugs of foam, and middle schoolers ordered hot chocolate to look sophisticated.

Fun fact

The Bean's slowest computer was nicknamed Grandpa, and loading one picture on it took the length of a whole latte.

Six finishes

187 copies of Dial-Up Bean Cafe exist

Dial-Up Bean Cafe comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.

Dial-Up Bean Cafe, Retsy card 0626 in the Base finish — **Base**100 copies · Common

Dial-Up Bean Cafe, Retsy card 0626 in the Holo finish — **Holo**50 copies · Uncommon

Dial-Up Bean Cafe, Retsy card 0626 in the Laser finish — **Laser**25 copies · Rare

Dial-Up Bean Cafe, Retsy card 0626 in the Gold finish — **Gold**10 copies · Very rare

Dial-Up Bean Cafe, Retsy card 0626 in the Super Laser finish — **Super Laser**1 copy · 1 of 1

Dial-Up Bean Cafe, Retsy card 0626 in the Misprint finish — **Misprint**1 copy · 1 of 1

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