Since the Internet grew up in an academic environment, university students will likely have a level of access that would be the envy of any business. All the services and research tools—not just E-mail, FTP, and telnet, but gopher, WWW, WAIS, and the rest are likely to be available to students from any terminal on the local "cluster" or by dial-up from their dorm rooms.
Students will be especially keen on:
o checking the university library catalogue to see if a book is in
before walking to the library.
o finding out about campus events (even at other universities!)
through gopher or school bulletin boards
o posting buy and sell notices for computer equipment, cars, housing,
and so on.
o contacting potential tutors either at their own university or for help by E-mail. (A netwide "university" of tutors, called Usenet University, is prepared to answer questions in various subjects by E- mail already exists in the Usenet newsgroups. See the alt.uu.* hierarchy).
o using online catalogues of other university libraries to find books for interlibrary loan or to compile bibliographies
o downloading free software and information
o finding scholarship information
Parents can communicate with their children at college by E-mail—and probably get a faster response than waiting for the occasional letter from home. Worried parents will have to refrain, however, from using the "finger" command to find out when their children last logged in or read their mail!