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      The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 21 July, 2023 - 11:30

    The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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    "When checking the system this morning, I noticed your account logged in for over 20 hours," begins a December 1998 email from the president of my dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) at the time. "Our service is unlimited, but we ask that you actually be using the connection while logged in."

    Today, when it seems like everyone is online 24/7 through smartphones and broadband, I'd be weird if I wasn't online for 20 hours straight. But 1998 in Raleigh, North Carolina, was different. In an age of copper telephone lines and dial-up modems, Internet access wasn't usually an always-on situation for a home user in the US. Each occupied telephone line meant another ISP customer couldn't use it—and no one could call you, either.

    But I'm getting ahead of myself—why do I have an email from 1998?

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      Open source ZeroTier is an encrypted virtual network backbone, allowing multiple machines to communicate as if they were on a single network

      GadgeteerZA · news.movim.eu / gadgeteerza-tech-blog · Wednesday, 4 May, 2022 - 13:02

    The code is all open source, and you can self-host the controller or use the ZeroTierOne service with either free or paid plans. Their free plan (cloud based) is robust, solid, and very consistent.

    After you have two nodes connected, connecting to each other — no matter where you are or what side of any firewalls you may be on — is exactly what you would expect if you were in the same building on the same network. A primary use case is for remote access to a Home Assistant setup without needing to open up firewall ports or expose it to the internet.

    The linked article explains how to get going with it.

    See https://opensource.com/article/22/5/zerotier-network

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