I lived just around the corner when Cyberia, definitely the UK’s and possibly the world’s first ever internet café, opened in 1994. (Naturally, a couple other places have since put in claims they opened first.)
Reading an article today about the founding of Cyberia, I saw this:
And then there was the Amish community in Pennsylvania. Eva had to fly out there to negotiate for the “Cyberia.com” domain name they had bought. “It was a proper barn with horse carts and a wall of modems as they were running a bulletin board and an early ecommerce company. Apparently, there was always one family nominated to be the tech support,” she remembers.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/worlds-first-ever-cyber-cafe-cyberia-london/
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that they’d be THAT far ahead of the curve. I might believe that they had a computer to promote or sell their business, but to set up their own server? How would they even know?