# Dial-Up Bean Cafe

> Dial-Up Bean Cafe is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0626 of 1,280 in the 90s Hangouts set, made in six finishes. A coffeehouse with four beige computers in the back, renting time on the internet by the half hour.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/dial-up-bean-cafe/

- Card number: 0626 of 1,280
- Set: 90s Hangouts (90-HNG)
- Year: 1998
- Type: Internet coffeehouse
- Tagline: Coffee by the cup. Internet by the hour.
- Found at: Downtown, across from the college
- Cost back then: $3 per half hour
- Stats: Nostalgia 8/10, Hype 7/10, Weirdness 6/10, Trade value 6/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0626-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0626-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0626-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0626-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0626-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0626-misprint.webp

## The story

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.

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