When I was in college at the turn of the century, the rooms full of computers at university were called "labs". During the same timeframe, folks paying for a ne

When I was in college at the turn of the century, the rooms full of computers at university were called "labs". During the same timeframe, folks paying for a networking course+certification (eg Cisco's CCNA) would get access to a "lab" full of networking gear to play with. These days, the nomenclature survives, but the facilities are often virtualized or remote eg https://learningnetworkstore.cisco.com/cisco-learning-labs https://learningnetworkstore.cisco.com/cisco-learning-labs