Comment by hinkley
3 years ago
The first VPNs I encountered were for bridging branch offices onto the corporate network.
It was only later when they made 'consumer' vpns where they became point-to-multipoint affairs, for bridging a single computer onto the network. I'm not really sure how that confusion happened. In that era they were glorified SSH tunnels.
Well they generally call the first type Site to Site VPN tunnels and the second client tunnels. Lots of different marketing from various companies makes it confusing since it's basically all the same oss under the hood.
Presumably via corporate 'single computer onto the network', basically as soon as laptops became commonly issued.