Since its foundation in 1996, C3 has focused its energies on fostering the integration of new technologies in the social and cultural tradition. In order that the new technologies be socially accepted, appropriated and largely employed, familiarity with models furnished by creative science as well as experimental avant-garde art and the creation of a novel, inspirational content are essential. C3 provides an ideal framework for all of this as a space for innovative experiments and initiatives, a site for free research and communication, active exchange of information, creative and educational work, and applied artistic imagination.

Within its activities aimed at the introduction and expansion of those new technologies in Hungary, C3 -- with the support of the Soros Foundation-Hungary and MATÁV -- provided several thousand NGO's and individuals with Internet access; organized free Internet courses; operated a public, free Internet "café"; and developed the web-based Freemail service, as well as the prototype of the public WebTerminal, four copies of which were placed in public locations. The new C3 Foundation, as a member of the Council of Hungarian Internet Providers, launched an online domain registration and name server service in August 2000.