3 ms·
> It is impossible to quantify what "could've been" without NAT. It is, because I have lived with multiple levels of NAT before and without NAT (with both publ
by netheril96 11y ago
> It is impossible to quantify what "could've been" without NAT.
It is, because I have lived with multiple levels of NAT before and without NAT (with both public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses) nowadays. The ability to do P2P is truly amazing. Now I don't have to wait with the abysmal download speed when the server is highly congested. Also amazing is the capability to ssh into machines without any configuration or begging the network administrators who are nowhere to be found.
- tremon 11y agoThe ability to do P2P is truly amazing No argument there. But that's not really a quantifiable statement either. In any case, that's not what I meant: I was referring to the different business and distributed computing models we might have had, instead of the heavily centralized models we have now. Maybe we would have had technologies like bitcoin ten years earlier? Maybe IRC would have gained a P2P component, and Twitter would never have happened? That's the kind of things that "could've been" I was thinking of.