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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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622 points ColinWright | 2 comments | 25 Jan 22 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source
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kstrauser ◴[25 Jan 22 22:58 UTC] No.30079330[source]▶
I sure hope that's right. It was the best feeling in the world to stand up an Apache server on my Amiga, and later my little FreeBSD server, and see my friends viewing the website I was hosting on my dialup connection. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't elegant, and it certainly wasn't fast, but it was mine. I made that. From installing the server to writing the HTML, I owned that service from end to end and had completely freedom to do whatever I wanted with it.

That's what I want the Internet to look like for my younger family and friends. It'll probably never happen exactly this way, but I can picture someone running an IPv6-only service on their phone to impress their friends. I know what their smile would look like because that was once my smile, too.

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1. jlarocco ◴[25 Jan 22 23:34 UTC] No.30079689[source]▶
I think there's some kind of fallacy there.

Nothing's really changed, in the sense that there's nothing stopping you (or anybody else) from running your own server that serves up simplehand-written HTML, if that's what you want to do.

You can probably even do it on your phone, but I wouldn't hold my breath for the app to get accepted to any official app stores.

Personally, I think the UI on phones is atrocious, and would never want to use one for any kind of development work, but to each their own.

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2. vecinu ◴[25 Jan 22 23:54 UTC] No.30079840[source]▶
> Personally, I think the UI on phones is atrocious, and would never want to use one for any kind of development work, but to each their own.

When the OP said

> but I can picture someone running an IPv6-only service on their phone to impress their friends

I think he meant actually running the serving of the content from the phone's hardware, not actually doing the development itself on the phone.