Well I clicked it because I am quite a fan of making internet more open. Unfortunately this article in my opinion is at best just bad and misguided. New lapto

Well I clicked it because I am quite a fan of making internet more open. Unfortunately this article in my opinion is at best just bad and misguided. New laptops rarely have RJ-45 nowadays, point here is that article is technically misleading and overly simplistic. You are not going to achieve much by just connecting laptops with cable, let alone just switches and then connecting those to more switches, it is far more complicated. I don't believe in piece below to be true, because one had to be in academia, science facility or government to connect: "For a very long time, no one paid for Internet access because Internet access was not something that was sold. It was like a public beachfront at the ocean. If you were near it, you could jump in, no credit card required.". In the end "focus on infrastructure, not coding" because "programmers useful only for large companies". Most of that infrastructure needs code that is written by programmers.