I set up one of these deliberately in younger days...
As a bored government employee in the early 1990s, I become fascinated with the WWW. I was a network admin (NetWare 2.15c), and there was a fat, unused internet pipe and several unused phone lines. I started to mess around with Linux (Slackware kernel 0.97 I think), and after two weeks I had it talking to a Hayes modem. Voila, instant ISP! A little while later I installed Slirp, and it became my personal dial-up connection for many, many years.
Before I left that job in 1995, I moved the server (headless) to a broom closet (wrong of me, I know, I know). Knowing gov't culture, no one would mess with something like that. It was up and running at least until 1998 or so, at which point I moved to another country, and when I moved back, I no longer had the dial-up number. I like to think it is running to this day.
As a bored government employee in the early 1990s, I become fascinated with the WWW. I was a network admin (NetWare 2.15c), and there was a fat, unused internet pipe and several unused phone lines. I started to mess around with Linux (Slackware kernel 0.97 I think), and after two weeks I had it talking to a Hayes modem. Voila, instant ISP! A little while later I installed Slirp, and it became my personal dial-up connection for many, many years.
Before I left that job in 1995, I moved the server (headless) to a broom closet (wrong of me, I know, I know). Knowing gov't culture, no one would mess with something like that. It was up and running at least until 1998 or so, at which point I moved to another country, and when I moved back, I no longer had the dial-up number. I like to think it is running to this day.