I remember running OpenWrt on an Asus router back around 2004 or 2005, it was very interesting. I ran an IPv6 tunnel broker with SixXs, network services (I reme

I remember running OpenWrt on an Asus router back around 2004 or 2005, it was very interesting. I ran an IPv6 tunnel broker with SixXs, network services (I remember DHCP and DNS, which I learned quite a bit about in the process). It was a great way to give users control over their devices and put them to uses their creators probably never thought of. Most ended up being used as Routers/APs in SOHO networks, I assume, but some were used for tasks that people approach with Beagle Boards and other SBCs these days. In the history of computing, it's a recurring theme that once a small enough, cheap enough machine becomes available (think of e.g. the PDP-8 back in the 60s), people find all kinds of uses for them that before (almost?) nobody would have considered using a computer for.