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@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ The number one problem with IPFS's public perception is that a huge, huge number
This is understandable, since most end users are not accustomed to being an equal, active participant in the great glowing mass we call the internet. We are accustomed to interactions between service providers: Google, Apple, Facebook; and service users: us. We upload photos to Facebook and then leave. We upload videos to YouTube and then leave. The internet just runs 24/7 and I don't have to do anything about it.
Most of us feel that 'the internet' is this big thing that is separate from ourselves, managed by far away entities with billions of dollars, which we use and then leave; which we are not a part of. Proportionally, the number of people who have ever hosted a web server or game server themselves and had their friends connect or transferred files between two devices in their home via LAN IP is dwindling all the time. Recently I explained to someone that a modem connects your house to the internet and your router connects your devices to each other -- and they asked me why you'd want to do that. The word "Internet" means "between networks", and necessarily postdates the smaller institutional- and home-level networks we started with.
Most of us feel that 'the internet' is this big thing that is separate from ourselves, managed by far away entities with billions of dollars, which we use and then leave; which we are not a part of. Proportionally, the number of people who have ever hosted a web server or game server themselves and had their friends connect, or transferred files between two devices in their home via LAN IP is dwindling all the time. Recently I explained to someone that a modem connects your house to the internet and your router connects your devices to each other -- and they asked me why you'd want to do that. The word "Internet" means "between networks", and necessarily postdates the smaller institutional- and home-level networks we started with.
You don't even need a domain name to have a website: just run an http server, open your ports, and give your friends your IP. You're live. Welcome to the internet. It's made by people, and you're a people too. You can even run a website [off of a cell phone](https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/9lirv0/best_libraryframework_for_running_a_web_server_on/), except that Google and Apple are making this harder all the time in order to groom your Stockholm syndrome.