>This is how the internet is designed, and you can already do this today. In my case, I host my own dns, email, and my own webpages, locally on my home connecti

>This is how the internet is designed, and you can already do this today. In my case, I host my own dns, email, and my own webpages, locally on my home connection. You just have to be willing to learn, and willing to do. Once you've learned, the actual "do" is rather trivial. That's great that it works for you. But there are lots of people who are perfectly capable of doing this who don't want the hassle (let alone the huge numbers of people for whom this is completely impossible). I spent most of my youth screwing around with computers and learning a lot about how all this stuff works and it was great fun. Now that I'm getting older, it is frankly growing tiresome. The last thing I want to do on a Saturday-- when I should be playing with my kids and enjoying life-- is fuss with some file server that is acting up, preventing my wife from posting vacation photos. I've got enough work to do around the house so as it is. I don't need to be on call 24/7 for IT infrastructure support.