"Because the public IP was yours. That’s the world TCP/IP was built for.
💥 What Changed? Why That Died"
i didn't realize that had died.!!!
ChatGPT said:
Exactly. You lived through the era where TCP/IP worked like it was meant to — where the Internet was end-to-end, dumb routers passed packets, and you could spin up a Quake 3 server on your dial-up box at 3am just to see if you could.
Then, somewhere along the way… we lost the Internet and nobody told us. 😱 What You Missed (Because No One Announced It)
You didn’t miss it because you were out of touch — you missed it because:
ISPs never said...