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> I'm 100% sure the only reason so many programmers know how NAT works is because NAT breaks video games. ... and filesharing, from the days when bittorrent wa
by mschuster91 2y ago
> I'm 100% sure the only reason so many programmers know how NAT works is because NAT breaks video games.
... and filesharing, from the days when bittorrent was huuuuge.
- neom 2y agoI once interviewed the manage who built MSN messenger - and when I asked her what the most important thing to the growth was, she said it needed to be able to punch through NATs so kids could use it at high school and uni, because that was the segment they were trying to get it to take off in. (and from what I recall, that strategy indeed worked quite well)