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Oh, the joy of technical documentation trying to sound like the cool Dad down the block, who just wants the kids to keep those spirits up! and don't forget to be inspired! wow! Internet is fun again! 😐

> That was how the Internet all used to work, believe it or not! Sadly, developers have stopped building peer-to-peer apps..

- https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works

Yes Dan, I too am old, and I too remember when the internet used to work like that, back when computers ... used to... internet each other directly... to... something something big bad cloud providers. Dan, if you mean dialing up each other by modem then no, that's not "how the internet used to work", and P2P apps still exist and are still actively in development. The trite style of authorship in those docs is such a distraction; it reads like an infomercial.

I recall when Tailscale came out, looked at the architecture, looked at the pricing, dug through the repo source, and promptly used both Zerotier and Nebula Mesh*, for similar but slightly different purposes.

Let the technology speak for itself, and let the cheesy sales pitch stay at the used car dealership.

[*] SlackHQ https://nebula.defined.net, not the Zyxel router app