A student ran an IRC server (necromancy.poly.edu) that anyone could connect to from outside the network, if they used their student VPN. I love that that was po

A student ran an IRC server (necromancy.poly.edu) that anyone could connect to from outside the network, if they used their student VPN. I love that that was possible. There were so many cool projects that their network facilitated. I went to this exhibition, after the network "upgrade", and spoke to a student who's wearable device gets sensor readings from itself using HTTP to a node.js server hosted on a VPS. He was having latency issues.