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Comment by alex_duf

2 years ago

I'm afraid this is factually wrong, my computer had a public IP until the early 2010s as around these days modems were just models and not routers too.

And with IPv6 all my devices could be publicly addressed but I've enabled a firewall to block incoming traffic at the router level.

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Suppafly  2 years ago

>my computer had a public IP until the early 2010s as around these days modems were just models and not routers too.

You realize that wasn't the norm though right?

  • globular-toast  2 years ago

    It was. Our 56k modem was a PCI card. Later we had ISDN and ADSL modems (I still use the latter to this day). I only got a router (a Linksys device) to attach multiple computers to the internet. It was a few years before ISPs started bundling routers and WiFi APs.