I can very much imagine giving a lecture, in a few years time, and students will ask, disbelievingly,

"What do you mean that you could just run a website from a computer in your home? For anyone in the world to access?"

or

"No, I don't believe it - you could run a server to exchange messages with other people, without a licence, and without verifying who they are?!"

or

"What do you mean that you fell in love with your wife without knowing her real name, because you chatted to her so much on the web before you ever met?! Surely you scanned her ID when you first started talking to her."

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