You know, it's certainly less common, but it's not rare like it used to be. When I was in high school in the 90s, I did consulting gigs until I was able to buy

You know, it's certainly less common, but it's not rare like it used to be. When I was in high school in the 90s, I did consulting gigs until I was able to buy a 486 laptop. I was then the only kid in my entire 1200 person high school with a laptop, period. So, let's do some terrible math and assume that about one in a thousand teens in the 90s had servers in their rooms. 30ish years later, I'm willing to be it's more like one in fourty to sixty. Even 1-2% of a population represents a lot of individual 16-year-olds with servers in their rooms. What's really wild is that today they can find each other easily. You're not limited by folks you can reach via FIDOnet.