[ChuckMcM]

Sigh. Kids don't realize that before "the internet" there was Usenet, dial up modems, and store and forward nodes. But the same kids want all the things that the surveillance economy pays for, but they don't want to pay. It's definitely messed up.

I actually designed a device about 10 years ago, it was connection like Tailscale but embedding a 32 bit IPV4 experience in the IPV6 space. You still had to pay $1/month or so to cover the cost or running a network specific DNS somewhere but you already pay for your own Internet access, and putting a "server" in the form of a RaspberryPi on this network would be super oldschool. Think Metro-scale 'NAT' where the 'NAT' part was just the lower 32 bits of a 96 bit prefix. You can lift and run, unchanged, the IPV4 world if you want. Your own private 4 billion address space to play around in.