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aboardRat401/03/20261 replyview on HN

It surely was a big factor.

When internet finally became popular, hosting a website on your own machine already became infeasible.


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DrewADesign01/03/2026

What do you mean by popular? I hosted a site on a home machine in the early teens. If you don't know how to do that with NAT, you should not have a web server under your control exposed to the internet.

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