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Internet usage is spreading as widely and as densely, as the personal computer which has settled in the homes of millions of people all over the world. As television created invisible glued threads onto children’s eyes in the past, so the Internet and its weblike access to exciting opportunities and worlds, is sticking like glue to the minds of today’s youngsters. The educational institutions are not immune to all of this, and especially not the computer studies students. All day and every day, one can walk into the laboratories and find groups of students glued to the screen, the browsing facilities, and the downloading activities. This is both good and bad for the students. Being late for classes, missing classes altogether, disrupting practical laboratory sessions, using workstations which could have been used by other students who wished to do valid practical work, chatting and gathering around the workstations and so on, are everyday occurrences due to the arrival of Internet. A friendly solution was deemed necessary, one that would still allow access at certain times, yet curtail such access during valid practical sessions in relevant laboratories.
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Olivier, W., van de Haar, H. (1997). Controlling Internet Access at an Educational Institution. In: Yngström, L., Carlsen, J. (eds) Information Security in Research and Business. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35259-6_22
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