irelephant [he/him]DO NOT TOUCH
neidu390% of www in the same internet was hosted like this.
It feels like a loss that this is no longer the case.
It absolutely is
And its mostly the fault of ISPs
What did ISPs change?
They stopped giving people static IP addresses by default, which makes at home self hosting too hard for normies.
Pretty sure normies don’t even know what an IP address is.
They wouldnt have to. It would be possible to build ootb applications and devices that do the setup automatically. For something like an at home cloud storage, you could just plug it in at home and it could autodiscover and pair just by scanning some QR codes or something.