I am continually shocked at how few people actually care about this. Maybe I am just showing my age, because I remember in college, and even when I got my first

I am continually shocked at how few people actually care about this. Maybe I am just showing my age, because I remember in college, and even when I got my first cable modem, I could easily just spin up apache or IIS and have a website hosted from my house, with no additional money or hoops required- start up a webserver, pop in the IP into my browser, or my dynamic dns, and there we were on the web! This lead to all kinds of experimentation and such, even if I did get "hacked by Chinese!" when I had IIS running around 2001ish. Google has been doing a great job of killing the "personal internet" by making it undiscoverable for several years, but now that we require a third party to somehow be involved, and likely a fee of some sort to be paid- I don't trust that the likes of Lets Encrypt and its duplicators to be available forever, the original "anyone can publish" dream of the web is dying in front of us. This: https://justinjackson.ca/words.html https://justinjackson.ca/words.html does not require SSL in any form, in fact most websites don't need it at all- and the obsession with even blogs wanting you to make accounts and to have to login, its all just heading in a very wrong direction. Its just deplorable to me that I now need a third party to essentially tell me that I can be on the Internet. Its a huge step backwards in so many ways. And no one seems to care!