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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 25 2007 | india, technology, iit, mumbai, internet
    Put down the internet and go get some fresh air | The Register

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    Quoted: A leading Indian technology college is switching off internet access to try and get its students involved in a bit of real-world socialising.
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    The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai (Bombay) will turn off hostel students' free internet access from 11pm until 12.30pm. Authorities hope the decision will get students talking to each other again. Mumbai has 13 undergraduate hostels.

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    • hbhanoo - Mar 30 2007

      I bet they'll find some way to get internet access themselves. Maybe it's really a ploy to get them to get innovative internet access...

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