"Because the public IP was yours. Thatโs the world TCP/IP was built for.
๐ฅ 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 โ 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 wayโฆ we lost the Internet and nobody told us. ๐ฑ What You Missed (Because No One Announced It)
You didnโt miss it because you were out of touch โ you missed it because:
ISPs never said...