University students' appreciation and contributions for the Internet

New findings in the field of infrastructure during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were quickly adopted by universities across North America.

Examples of early university Internet community are Cleveland FreeNet, Blacksburg Electronic Village and NSTN in Nova Scotia. Students took up the opportunity of free transportation and saw this new phenomenon as a tool of liberation. Personal computer and the Internet would free them from corporations and governments.

Graduate students played a huge part in the formation of ARPANET. In the 1960s, the network functioning group, which did most of the design for ARPANET's protocols, was collected mainly of graduate student.