I'm clearly in the target audience as I'm now considering doing something like this. The page gives me all the information I need or want.
I'm clearly in the target audience as I'm now considering doing something like this. The page gives me all the information I need or want.
> around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters.
> there’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, radios galore, a NAS storage swap, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of “redphones”.
The above is from the linked essay about the current sordid state of the internet. It gives a few ideas for fun pastimes but honestly not a lot. Gaming with close friends is probably the majority of what I'd use a LAN setup like this for so naturally I'm left curious what I might be missing out on.
If the idea of setting up one of these doesn't sound like fun in its own right, I wouldn't recommend attempting it.