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kstrauser ◴[] 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. SMAAART ◴[] No.30080525[source]
I want my BBS!

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2. partomniscient ◴[] No.30080636[source]
I remember some boards where you had to wait for what seemed like ages to get to the actual main page because you had to wait for some fancy ANSI art to do its thing.