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Most of the time in a casual, public, marketing or just generally not technical setting, "VPN" is just the modern tern for "Proxy". I'm not sure why that happen
by Aelinsaar 11y ago
Most of the time in a casual, public, marketing or just generally not technical setting, "VPN" is just the modern tern for "Proxy". I'm not sure why that happened to be honest, except maybe that "Virtual Private Network" is more marketable than "Proxy"?
- roywiggins 11y agoMaybe because proxies got a bad name from sketchy free proxies? There are sketchy free VPNs now, but "Businesses use VPNs for security" is a pretty powerful idea, I guess.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoThat's a good point. If you're under 40, "Proxy" probably conjures images of those free proxies you mention. Over that, I have to believe you're going to favor the legal terminology at first blush.
- JamilD 11y agoI can understand this argument. The term "proxy" immediately brings me back to the days of trying to bypass the high school content filters using sketchy foreign proxies…
- roywiggins 11y agoI still remember the day I leveled up by setting up an SSH tunnel via my family's PC and walking into school with putty.exe on a thumb drive!
- BoysenberryPi 11y agoThis is a very technical solution. I just asked my homeroom teacher, who was also the schools main IT guy, to unblock whatever website I wanted. He was pretty cool. Also installed Visual C# for me on the schools computers so I could program during my down time.