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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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622 points ColinWright | 3 comments | 25 Jan 22 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.645s | 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. d0gsg0w00f ◴[26 Jan 22 02:36 UTC] No.30080986[source]▶
> 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.

Wow. Do you know if there's any enthusiasts out there doing this? A phone would actually be a great hosting device for tinkerers. It's always on, always connected, and supports IPv6.

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2. zozbot234 ◴[26 Jan 22 03:25 UTC] No.30081298[source]▶
A phone is a poor hosting device in a conventional sense, because it's battery powered and keeping the connection up will drain the battery. If you want to P2P-host something via your phone, it should be a service that can somehow piggyback on the ephemeral network connection strategy that mobile devices are already using. The closest thing I've seen to that might be SecureScuttlebutt, but even then it's not ideal. IPFS hosting might also work, but again only on a highly ephemeral basis.
3. miyuru ◴[26 Jan 22 04:55 UTC] No.30081898[source]▶
I tested this with my old phone and it certainly worked even on non rooted android but I do not deployed it full time.

There is however this starlink dashboard hosted by awlnx on starlink and its IPv6 only. https://starlink.awlnx.space