Title. Just imagine the possibilities of having your own “homemade internet”!
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That’s called an intranet (which is like the internet but for a building or small area).
The internet isn’t really anything more than computers connected to other computers. If you want to make your own internet you can connect two computers whether wired or wireless, and voila. You can host a website locally that only those two computers can access.
See also: !selfhosting@slrpnk.net
Don’t you need at least AS numbers and BGP (or equivalent multiple independent networks) for it to be an "inter"net?
If you run BGP, yes. Instead, you can always just build up huge-ass fixed routing tables that are impossible to maintain once you get more than a handful of networks…
Don’t need to, you can start with RIP
North Korea did that
With hookers and blackjack?
Take two computers, connect then via router, finito.
You need two entire networks.
So yeah, take two computers, set them on different networks, bridge them via router.
Could you give more details about what you mean by “homemade internet”? The first thing I thought of was just a LAN or Intranet which I see many people have already suggested but I feel like that may not be what you’re actually talking about
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html?m=1
It’s doable, just needs a fair bit of hardware, time and money
Well, the Internet is connected together using routers/switches. Your own home network is a “private internet” until you pay to connect it to the big one. So if you want, nothing is stopping you from running cables to your neighbors and hooking together. But then you won’t have access to anything useful except whatever servers you guys run
Was that your question?
I was going to make a joke that you didn’t even mention the tubes, but TIL that’s anti-net-neutrality idiot propaganda :( Idk why I thought it was, like, Tim Burners Lee or someone trying to explain things to non-nerds.
I think what you’re talking about is called a “LAN”/“Local Area Network”.
Here ya go.
You mean like an independent mesh?
I thought about that as well, some sort of “pirate radio”/mesh/distributed wireless where one could host a website kinda like the Internet of old and did some light research, but all I could find are Meshtastic (Messages only, no internet) and LoraWAN (seems more focused on IoT)
Can you give an example of a possibility you think of? In its simplest form it’s exactly your house wifi if you disconnect your internet uplink. Anything bigger is also exactly a subset of the current internet disconnected from the rest, plus you having to maintain infrastructure.
